Friday Fun with Firebird: Curious Backup sizes
There are some tricky and unclear things in Firebird, which do not affect the performance or reliability, but they are curious. Some of them we are going to show, but not explain.
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Firebird and #Flamerobin used in Database Design course
Nicole Anderson from Computer Science Department Winona State University is using Firebird and Flamerobin in one of her Database Design course
Firebird 2.1.3 – Recommended update
Douglas Tosi wrote about why is recommended to do the upgrade in a short like review (If you don’t want to parse the changelog yet)
Yesterday Firebird 2.1.3 was made public. As with all maintenance releases its focus is stability. A number of bugs are fixed and it is a recommended update for everyone using older versions of the 2.1 series
Via twitter status post
#Twitter Firebird #Geek #Hero of the day
I started following him http://twitter.com/brentrowland because he is
the Ruby Firebird Extension maintaner also he writes some really
interesting tweets and blog posts
More porting issues from BDE to dbExpress and Firebird – in Delphi
The porting odyssey continues with issues from jumping from BDE to Delphi .Also another episode is with Firebird date fields (part II)
Q&A with Community Choice Award Winner Firebird
Helen Borrie from Firebird, winner of the SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards Best Project for the Enterprise category, answers our questions.
Via Adriano’s Twitter Page , You can retweet it
http://twitter.com/sourceforge/status/3717628736 , Maybe we need a retweet button on firebirdnews too
#Slackware #Linux #Slamd64 and #Firebird
Here is what Milan Babuskov wrote about his experience with Linux Slackware and Firebird related packages on x64 system :
I just installed Slamd64 version 12.2. I know that Slackware -current is 64bit and Slackware 13.0 is out, but out-of-the-box 32bit compatibility of Slamd64 is very tempting, so this is the first 64bit slackware I installed.
Install went fine, and KDE is running in a matter of seconds. Now, time to compile all the needed stuff for development. Basically, all I need is Firebird, FlameRobin and PHP extension for Firebird (i.e. InterBase).
Firebird and data fields – porting issues from BDE
No’am Newman wrote again about his Bde to Firebird date migration issues:
In continuation of my previous post about problems of inserting/update date fields in FB databases, I did a little poking around and eventually – by trial and error – found the correct syntax:
update data
set datefield = ’01/01/2008′
where id = 1;
Climbing the firebird learning curve
No’am Newman wrote about using Firebird:
I’ve spent the last week getting Firebird to work in my occupation psychologist’s office.
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So this week, I’ve learnt the following thingshow to install FB on a network
how to access FB from client computers on that network
how to use the list view component
how to use an FB generator for auto-incremented integers
how to insert/update a date into an FB table[to do]
That’s enough for one week.
Brazilian Active Delphi Magazine – August issue with a pleasant Firebird surprise.
Douglas Tosi wrote on his blog :
This week I received the Brazilian Active Delphi magazine with a pleasant surprise. My very fist published article.