Firebird security bug fixed in gentoo linux
Firebird allows remote connections to the administrative account without verifying credentials.
Category: Technical Articles
Technical articles, How-tos, guides, etc.
Video about new features of FB 2.1
ActiveDelphi site released an on-line video (in portuguese) showing some of the new features of Firebird 2.1. You need to (free) register in the site to be able to download the video.
Performance improvement by using firebird client from cvs head
He doubled his performance by just switching the firebird client :
We’ve just built and tested ‘libfbclient.so’ from the head branch and tested
it against the release version 2.0.3. In other words, we only switched out
the client library, and left the database server itself intact at version
2.0.3.
Integrated auth in Firebird 2.1
Just a quick sample of integrated windows auth in Firebird 2.1
Get to know FB in 2 minutes – Updated!
With the recent release of Firebird 2.1 final, it is time to update the “Get to know Firebird in 2 minutes” paper. English (PDF/HTML) and Brazilian Portuguese is already up to date (revision 1.2). You can help translating/updating the document to other languages.
[Upd] German, French and Czech versions are now updated too.
The final 3rd part of the Interbase and Firebird Developer’s manual for ADO .Net
The 3rd part of the Interbase and Firebird Developer’s manual for ADO .Net was published. Examples for DDL queries, metadata schemas and ODBC sequences were presented.
The 2nd part of the Interbase and Firebird Developer’s manual for ADO .Net
The 2nd part of the Interbase and Firebird Developer’s manual for ADO .Net has published. It describe code generators and Visual Studio 2005/2008 tools.
Firebird and OpenOffice
Here you will find a tutorial with screenshots prepared for those who want to see all the things we can do with OpenOffice connected to Firebird.
The ZeosLib DBOs 6.1.5 – With Delphi 7 and Firebird 1.5
This little article shows how to access Firebird databases by using the ZEOS component Library in version 6.1.5 (including Patches 1&2) and how to use these components in database applications. It does not matter if you use the “real” SQL-Server or the embedded version which is restricted to local held databases. A couple of examples (also migrated Delphi-BDE demos) shall explain how to use the ZEOS components.
Installing firebird 2.0.x client with screenshots
When configuring a Windows machine for use by the Evolution™ payroll service-bureau system, a common step is installing the open-source Firebird database software; this Evo Tip details the process.