Technical articles, How-tos, guides, etc.
Now in Firebird Fisheye you can create queries on the source code repository
For example here is how to get the changes with “Misc” comments
select revisions from dir /firebird2/src where (is head and comment matches “Misc”) group by changeset return path, revision, author, date, csid
When you get “unavailble database” error prompt connecting to Firebird service is annoying and difficult to trace. Sometime it works and sometime it doesn’t. We don’t know when it works and when it doesn’t Here is guide to trace the issue.
After a request on the Firebird-Java mailinglist, I [Mark Rotteveel] offered to work on creating support for the Firebird database in the Eclipse Data Tools Platform.
Here is the guide (in Italian) for installing Firebird and Python driver on Ubuntu
Guide is written in Italian language but it’s easy to follow it
Bernardo Giovanni posted in his blog an article (in Italian) explaining how to retrieve a list of tables, views and columns from a Firebird database.
Here is the article with what is new in Firebird , I used google translate to read what is all about
Here is the install guide for php5.3 and pdo on centos 5.3 using the remi/epel repositories ,
Now the remi repository can be used for Fedora 10 also
Here are the notes for installing php firebird support in CentOS 5.3 using the php 5.1.6 from it’s own repository and Firebird 2.1.2 from EPEL-Testing repository
It’s official now, Philippe Makowski is the maintainer of Firebird packages for Fedora and Epel (Centos and RHEL packages) and Firebird packages get pushed into Fedora repositories.
Here is the guide for Centos5.3 you must enable the epel-testing for centos
# rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm
This is done by editing the /etc/yum.repos.d/epel-testing.repo file (installed by the previous rpm command) and changing the first “enabled=0” to “enabled=1”.
