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Access to Firebird from Delphi using dbGo components

December 1, 2008 Andrew Merkulov Leave a comment

The new article was published: Working with Firebird and Interbase from Delphi using IBPRovider and dbGo components.

Table of content:

TADOConnection component
TADOTable component
TADODataSet component
Sending changes to database – updatable rowsets technology
Client and server cursors
What provider to choose?
TADOQuery component
SQL-queries with parameters
TADOStoredProc component
TADOCommand component
Transactions

Firebird 2.1.1 is included in Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope

November 19, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

Here are the package details.

See how it was solved in Bug #271919: please sync firebird 2.1.1 from debian experimental

Zend framework 1.7 released

November 18, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

Here is the download and release link . Thanks to Luiz Fernando Firebird Suport is included

New IBProvider support of 49 code pages

November 9, 2008 Andrew Merkulov Leave a comment

The new IBProvider version:

Support of 49 Firebird and Interbase code pages including UNICODE_FSS, UTF8 and OCTETS binary data. Supported character sets.
Possible provider operation without registration in the system via manifest file.
The article: Example of working with Firebird and Interbase without registering additional components.
Prevention of memory leaks in Firebird client during library unloading.
Specific errors have been fixed.

Read details on: Firebird driver news channel

I (Dan Wilson) put together the procedure I used in order to get native and PDO firebird support working with PHP and CentOS 5. I was unsuccessful using the FAQ at http://www.firebirdfaq.org/faq191/, and couldn’t find any other tricks on the web that worked. So, I compiled from a fedora source RPM as follows

Pure Python Firebird Library

November 1, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

On Firebird Python mailing list there is an interesting thread about rewriting Firebird Python Driver

Here is Pavel response

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Building Firebird 2.5 from Debian git repository

October 29, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

These are the general notes on building Firebird 2.5 from debian git , and it should work on any debian based distro like ubuntu or others