Technical articles, How-tos, guides, etc.
Paul Reeves guide for running two or more versions of Firebird server in the same machine is now available here.
“Firebird does not currently support running multiple instances as Windows services. This fetaure will come with V2.1. However, secondary instances may be run as applications. Here is how to proceed…”
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After many lunchtimes of testing and documenting, and with a little (!) help from Paul in the Limbo Transactions testing, I have checked in the gfix manual.
Onwards to other things now – gpre!
Cheers,
Norman.
For those that are interested, the Firebird Embedded SQL guide for RM/Cobol has been updated to include event handling. You can find the guide in either HTML or PDF formats here.
Posted in FB-Support list by Stephen Boyd.
I did a talk on various strategies of how to bridge relational databases and object-oriented programming. In retrospect I should have submitted this as a “double feature” talk, so that I could cover more ground on the actual using of the existing packages in the PHP space.
The other talk was on database locking. I think the biggest eye opener for people in that talk was about how MVCC, found in Firebird, Oracle, InnoDB and PostreSQL, really works and how to control the behavior as needed.
you can read the article translated here
La gestion des transactions dans Firebird
Présentation du concept de transaction et du modèle transactionnel de Firebird, comparaison par rapport à d’autres SGBD. Avantages et inconvénients, bonnes pratiques de conception et de programmation.
Via http://firebird-fr.eu.org/doku.php?id=wiki:rendez-vous2007
Carlos Guzmán Álvarez wrote on dotnetprovider mailing list:
We are going to need to implement the version 11 of the Firebird Protocol (in .net provider) and review the buffer handling code to make better checks on
buffer lengths and server responses.
Martijn wrote on his blog: For those of you who don’t know yet, or aren’t following the Firebird-support list, Helen Borrie just posted a small part of the excellent “The Firebird Book”, the date/time literals accepted by Firebird: Firebird Date/Time Literals
Keep that one for future reference.
The Docbuilding Howto and Docwriting Guide have been updated. The most
important modifications are:
