Technical articles, How-tos, guides, etc.
Many people doesn’t know that Firebird official site has a lot of good articles/docs . You just need to dig a little bit, or go straight to this page. There you will find really cool articles and even old stuff, like IB 6 manuals, etc.
Blog post shows how to use FB Embedded with Microsoft .NET 2.
PostgreSQL vs Firebird feature comparison (for Enterprise Use)
New site about Firebird is up:
Firebird FAQ is an online repository of 300+ answers to frequently,and not so frequently asked questions about the Firebird database management system (DBMS). This growing Q&A collection is a built by Firebird users, for Firebird users. All FirebirdFAQ editors have been using Firebird in various projects since the first versions showed up for download. While most of the contents are written from our personal experience, there are also bits collected from various online forums, mailing lists or websites.
Heads up to anyone working with the sourcecode from svn trunk. I’ve just merged the new Setup system. The new system provides a lot more helpful information during setup and is designed such that if an error happens, the process can continue if the cause of the error is corrected.
The new edition of the Brazilian DB FreeMagazine was released today and contains all the slides from the 4th Firebird Developers Day conference. Download is free.
Installing Firebird DDEX provider into Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista (64-bit). Nothing brand new, but can help begginers when trying to use Firebird in .NET and in VS.
Joe Wirtley started working on a project with the Firebird database server and .net provider
A simple way how to store GUID in Firebird (not only from .NET). Read here.
