Changing charset in firebird
Here is the article
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Evaluating open-source DBs -Firebird Enterprise ready ?
The thread is on joelonsoftware.com and the question is about open source databases :
Quick issue, everyone. My company currently uses SQL Server, but we’re going to look at open-source databases because of MS’s crooked licensing rules (to be honest, they only have one SQL license, and are running it on a two-processor machine). They don’t want to shell out the extra $6,000 for another one, and I don’t blame them.
Back to the Blog … back to the bug (report)
Today I decide to put up a post about a common requirement which leads to an interesting SQL query (see an example here) using Firebird and Flamerobin, after a few seconds I was writing bug reports
Firebird is the best in embedded area
Here is the full thread on nhibernat and the quote
“However, the thing that finally made us switch from SQLite to Firebird was the fact that it only support one open transaction at a time. This makes it essentially useless for multithreaded/multiuser applications. SQLite is excellent for some tasks, but if you have more than one thread/process accessing the database at the same time you really should consider using another database. ”
New challenges, new synthax
DDL Visualizer – Visualize firebird sql script with Netbeans
new developer blog – Paul Beach’s blog
you can read his macosx porting adventure
Apache + PHP + Firebird + Fedora Core 7
Here is an howto setup apache +php+firebird on fedora core 7
Are Proprietary Databases Doomed?
Times of change are upon the database market. The major established database companies are being challenged by open source upstarts like MySQL and PostgreSQL. [Add firebird to the list too]
Facts about databases – blog post of the day
Use Firebird SQL Server, if you have the luxury to choose among many database systems.