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New IBProvider support of 49 code pages

November 9, 2008 Andrew Merkulov Leave a comment

The new IBProvider version:

Support of 49 Firebird and Interbase code pages including UNICODE_FSS, UTF8 and OCTETS binary data. Supported character sets.
Possible provider operation without registration in the system via manifest file.
The article: Example of working with Firebird and Interbase without registering additional components.
Prevention of memory leaks in Firebird client during library unloading.
Specific errors have been fixed.

Read details on: Firebird driver news channel

Firebird Gets the Eye of the Sphinx- full-text search engine

November 4, 2008 mariuz 2 comments

Sphinx is a very powerful and popular free open source full-text search engine. A few days ago, Sphinx 0.9.8.1 was released. Vlad Khorsun and Pierre Yager made a patch for Sphinx to support Firebird. Their patches and Windows binary are available to download and try out.

It’s an great search engine used a lot in the LAMP world So now for example if you create and phpbb site with firebird back end , you can use sphinx for indexing and fast search. Another idea is : use it to index the whole database if you have large quantities of text and you need to search for keywords (an movie comments database for example)

Firebird 2.1 included in Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex

November 3, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

Firebird 2.1 (version 2.1.0) is included by default in the Ubuntu 8.10 named Intrepid Ibex that was released on 30 October. To use it you might need this guide and also there is an repository with version 2.1.1 (recommended)

Firebird, PHP, and CentOS 5

November 3, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

I (Dan Wilson) put together the procedure I used in order to get native and PDO firebird support working with PHP and CentOS 5. I was unsuccessful using the FAQ at http://www.firebirdfaq.org/faq191/, and couldn’t find any other tricks on the web that worked. So, I compiled from a fedora source RPM as follows

Building Firebird 2.5 from Debian git repository

October 29, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

These are the general notes on building Firebird 2.5 from debian git , and it should work on any debian based distro like ubuntu or others

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Timeout for wait transactions in FirebirdClient

October 20, 2008 Jiri Cincura Leave a comment

I have implemented new feature available from FB2.0, it’s timeout for wait transaction. more …

Installing and libdbi abstraction layer for Firebird c api

October 10, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

If you wish firebird C api were simpler to use similar to dbi api that is used in the perl world

then now you can with the help of libdbi and it’s nice C api , Here is my howto install such an abstraction layer over the standard Firebird C api.

Here is how the libdbi example should look for firebird

CakePHP RC3 – The RC of Triumph!

October 9, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

It’s finally here: the final release before the final release of
CakePHP 1.2 [ED:Tested and works just fine with Firebird 2.1]

Some of you may remember the benchmarks posted by Rasmus Lerdorf, in
which CakePHP did not perform so well. We can all debate Rasmus’ due
diligence (or lack of), but what was clear was that we had some
catching up to do. Over the past few weeks, Larry has worked
tirelessly on iteration after iteration of performance improvements,
and now we’re faster than ever before. By itself, the bootstrap
process is over 10x faster than RC2, and basic requests for static
content are now about 5x faster overall.