OpenOffice Calc and Firebird through ODBC
This is meant to be a quickstarter in using OpenOffice 2.0.3 and Firebird on Windows.
Category: Technical Articles
Technical articles, How-tos, guides, etc.
New Bulgarian translation for FB 2 Min.
The “Get to know FB in 2 minutes” paper was translated to Bulgarian by Todor Kichukov. Now the paper is available in 12 languages!
Jim Starkey: Introducing Falcon (the video and the podcast)
This is a great presentation, Jim throws in a lot of database history and insight into working with MySQL
Article about Firebird Embedded
Dan Letecky published an article about using embedded version of Firebird with .Net applications:
Firebird is a database with 20 years of history, full set of features (including transactions, stored procedures, hot-backup, excellent scalability, etc.) and a friendly open source license. It is an overlooked but compelling alternative to Microsoft Jet and Microsoft MSDE 2000/SQL Express 2005. Let’s take a look at how it can be used embedded in your desktop application. What makes Embedded Firebird ideal for embedding:
Read the full article here.
FB server is running on mips processor now
I have a FB server running on mipsel now – superserver debug version, in
a chroot over NFS, but anyway, it seems to work at first glance. I was
able to run the script to create our production database.
Is there any regression test I could try to run?
Best regards,
Fabrice Aeschbacher
MDB2_Schema is learning new tricks
Igor is doing great work on moving forward the XML based database schema format originally developed by Manuel Lemos as part of Metabase that is used in MDB2_Schema. [ED…skiped some content]The idea behind this schema format is to make it possible to define a single database schema that can be used to create, alter and initialize databases in any number of RDBMS. For example currently MDB2_Schema supports MySQL, PostGreSQL, Oracle, SQLite, MS SQL Server, Interbase/Firebird.
Read more on Lukas Smith’s blog [via planet mysql]
firebird on ecrypted file sytems (linux and windows)
On ubuntu linux i use encfs to create an virtual partition where i put my databases (and email, im logs) , Here is an howto create such an partition . On windows (i didn’t tested yet) but i heard about truecrypt (is an open source product). Here is an quote from their faq
Q: Is it possible to install an application to a TrueCrypt volume and run it from there?
A: Yes.
New FB 2.0 book will be released at FDD
“Firebird 2“, my new book devoted only to the new features of Firebird 2.0 will be released at the Firebird Developers Day Conference, in Brazil at July, 29. The book is written in portuguese and will be sold with special price during the conference.
django added firebird support
[ED:django is like RoR implemented in python]
Just attached the firebird backend and a patch file. Firebird has a problem, names can’t bigger than 31 chars for tables, fields, constraints, etc. In auth app needed to change user_premissions to permissions so the many to many table name doens’t get too big… must be a way we can workaround this…
Firebird Enterprise
Paul Beatch wrote on Firebird-General mailing list:
A Firebird user commissioned IBPhoenix to put together an accurate
report showing how capable Firebird was in the Enterprise and we interviwed some
very large users 🙂 I have asked to see if I can make that report publically available. [So here it is ]
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