The Python Papers , Volume 2, Issue 1, 2007
This is the complete issue containing Python User Group highlights, interviews, more on coding idioms, and an academic paper on the Firebird Database. (Revision 2)
Category: Technical Articles
Technical articles, How-tos, guides, etc.
Delphi for PHP – First impressions
Myles Wakeham wrote about Delphi for PHP and firebird issues:
Well I received my downloadable Delphi for PHP today. I haven’t had a huge amount of time to play with it, but there are some very impressive features, but a couple of ‘critical’ missing features for me.
Backup remote DB locally – tip of the day
By default, Firebird stores backup files on local disk, but using GBak you can use something like the following to backup a remote database, locally.
Aproximated record count
Ivan Prenosil posted in Firebird support list an interesting way to retrieve the aproximated record count in a table, without using the “slow” select count(*). See the code:
New article about optimization of network traffic in Delphi and C++ Builder applications
Devrace have published a new article “Devrace FIBPlus: Optimization of network traffic in Delphi and C++ Builder applications”. From it you will get to know:
Transfering data from firebird to sqlce or from sqlce to firebird.
What is the best way transfering data from firebird to sqlce or from sqlce
to firebird.?
Here are some answers
Approximate Record Count in Firebird
The following solution was originally posted to the Firebird Support Mail List by Ivan Prenosil.
A database development forum website – revisit it
martijn wrote in his blog about DatabaseDevelopmentForum.Com :
Quite some time ago, Arno Brinkman (from the Firebird Database Project and I launched a forum website where you can ask questions about different database systems.
[ED: the other Firebird forums that you can visit are fbtalk.net and devshed ]
New Firebird MemberShip scripts
Someone was asking why the current Firebird MemberShip/Role/Profile Example doesn’t work with the ASP.NET Configuration tool for security.
Hopefully this solves the problem. If it does I would appreciate someone letting me know so that others will also know in the future.
[Some modifications to Membership/Role/Profile Example]