Technical articles, How-tos, guides, etc.
Currently, if server’s host has more than one IP, FB uses only
first one. Attached patch lets it use up to eight. It’ll allow to
establish Redundant Array of Inexpensive Servers, just having added
more addresses to DNS, thus gaining fail-safety (or/and – if round-
robin turned on – load balancing).
Here is the patch and the thread
this guide is for ubuntu and it was tested on an ec2 xen image
Here is an small guide on installing firebird odbc driver from source (alternate you can install it from binary repository )
A good reference to unixodbc is located here
This was done on one xen virtual machine hosted at amazon (called EC2) but this guide can be used for any fedora core 6 machine
Extra Large Instance 15 GB memory, 64-bit platform 8 EC2 Compute Units (4 virtual cores with 2 EC2 Compute Units each)
I am getting the following controller exception when trying to access
my newly installed Firebird DB (to replace MySQL) from my app.
Post in Steve’s Delphi blog:
I was looking at some old Delphi 7 code of mine when I was attempting to get in behind the scenes of Interbase and Firebird tables and fields to learn a little more about them. I came across these little pieces of information I’d like to share.
Check the full post here.
folowing an previous guide on creating an firebird/flamerobin livecd for dapper drake (6.06) i created a new guide for the new ubuntu release code named feisty fawn (7.04)
You can download the final live cd from this page
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Firebird, where some have unknown impact and others can be exploited by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service)
Solution:
Update to version 2.0.2.
http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=files&id=engine_202
I have been a big fan of the Firebird database for a while now. It is a fast, reliable and maintenance free database which suits my needs. While it is very good at a couple of things, one of the features that I like is the fact that the entire database is stored in one file. In principle this is not important, but it is pretty clean and can be very useful.
Here you can read the rest of the guide on installing firebird 2.0.2 on ubuntu (dapper LTS version)
