Aggregate tables with Firebird
Thomas Steinmaurer’s article (in english) about using aggregate tables with Firebird is now available for download.
Category: Technical Articles
Technical articles, How-tos, guides, etc.
Transferring objects over the network (Part I)
Howto stream/transfer Objects in Delphi over the slow internet with an Firebird Db Backend
Firebird an Open Source Database System – First Steps
Here is the Italian guide (first steps) to Firebird and Flamerobin
Avoid deadlocks in Firebird for concurrent updates
This is a small tip that can be used when you want to have separate processes to write to the same records in the database, without deadlocks.
Cooking With Firebird and Apache – Do The FLAP way
An interesting pdf paper about Firebird and Apache+PHP
Spiceware Software wants to give as much support for the development of the Firebird Database Engine as possible, to this end we decided to dedicate our resources in helping with the documentation side of the project. Currently we are busy with a document on how to setup Apache, PHP & Firebird together for development on Windows and Linux. The document is linked below for you to download. Feel free to report errors.
Getting started with Firebird and Rails
Firebird 2.0.x on Solaris Sparc – Japanese way
Here is an article in Japanese with the quest of installing Firebird 2.0.x on Sun Solaris Sparc
Configure Squirrel to connect to Firebird Database
I was looking for some tutorial about configuring Squirrel SQL (http://squirrel-sql.sourceforge.net/) to connect to firebird database and unfortunately i couldn’t find one . So when i finally managed to connect, i thought of publishing the steps in my log so that it could be useful to some one else.
Configuring Squirrel Sql to connect to firebird was much easier than i thought.
Delphi/Firebird and ExtJs, part 2
fbsql: Clean client-libraries for Firebird and Interbase databases
I’ve written this quite some time ago (and it didn’t receive much love since then, but it’s functional and should be bug-free), but I just noticed I haven’t mentioned it on my blog: fbsql is a clean C-API that can be used to create bindings for other languages (such as Python or Ruby). It’s much simpler to use than the raw Interbase/Firebird API and it uses IBPP internally. So it’s basically just forwarding the function calls to IBPP and abstracting the IBPP classes to a C interface that is straight forward and intuitive.