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Avoid deadlocks in Firebird for concurrent updates
This is a small tip that can be used when you want to have separate processes to write to the same records in the database, without deadlocks.
Cooking With Firebird and Apache – Do The FLAP way
An interesting pdf paper about Firebird and Apache+PHP
Spiceware Software wants to give as much support for the development of the Firebird Database Engine as possible, to this end we decided to dedicate our resources in helping with the documentation side of the project. Currently we are busy with a document on how to setup Apache, PHP & Firebird together for development on Windows and Linux. The document is linked below for you to download. Feel free to report errors.
Getting started with Firebird and Rails
Updating pictures directly in Firebird database with Delphi
Article is in Portuguese but the code is in Delphi and Firebird 2.0.4 is used in example
Firebird Reddit Channel – Experimenting new areas
I just started to post some Firebird Related links or interesting news on reddit too (cross posted also on firebirdnews.org ) http://www.reddit.com/r/firebird
PS: I like this channel more than digg, also they have interesting news in the programming/database area
For thouse who still use irc there is an #firebird channel on freenode , usually I’m on ubuntu channels when I have time or are some important events.
Yet another OSS DB:Firebird Install on CentoOS + History Japanese Way
Another article in Japanise where Firebird History is recolected also Firebird Future and Roadmap from 2008 is inspected
Also in first part Firebird 2. 1.1 is compiled and installed from source on CentOS
Firebird 2.0.x on Solaris Sparc – Japanese way
Here is an article in Japanese with the quest of installing Firebird 2.0.x on Sun Solaris Sparc
Configure Squirrel to connect to Firebird Database
I was looking for some tutorial about configuring Squirrel SQL (http://squirrel-sql.sourceforge.net/) to connect to firebird database and unfortunately i couldn’t find one . So when i finally managed to connect, i thought of publishing the steps in my log so that it could be useful to some one else.
Configuring Squirrel Sql to connect to firebird was much easier than i thought.