Firebird related news
That would be the tweet of the day :
Firebird thorough introduction to http://bit.ly/fThQ97 tried to buy. But a little worried because the mail and logistics, in order that I wanted to be bad timing to worry too much.
Ansoft Development Ltd, of the Russian Federation, producer of the Avarda range of products, joins us as a Silver sponsor.
Firebird 3.0 Initial Review and Presentation http://www.slideshare.net/mindthebird/initial-review-of-firebird-3
In this presentation Dmitry Yemanov, lead architect of Firebird Project, introduces the key advantages of upcoming major release of Firebird 3.
We welcome Cointec Consultores Informática, from Spain, as a Bronze sponsor. Thanks to Jésus Angel García Zarco and his team.
Question of the day : I need to import a csv file into Firebird and I’ve spent a couple of hours trying out some tools and none fit my needs.
Under Fedora and derivative (including Centos and RHEL) :
yum install php-interbase
under Mageia and Mandriva
urpmi php-pdo_firebird
that’s all
see :
http://sophie.zarb.org/search?search=pdo_firebird.so&distribution=&type=byfile&d\
eptype=P
This fix corrects the error caused when reading an ftMemo field twice using the Firebird dbExpress driver.
Interesting issues and fixes with odbc and openoffice (usually you can use jdbc but that is another path to use firebird from OpenOffice/LibreOffice):
My name is Ocke Janssen, I’m the project lead of the dba.openoffice.org
project and I got a problem 😉
While trying to fetch bookmarks I crash inside the newest ODBC version
of Firebird.
You get an approximate value by running gstat and then check out the
Data pages value for the table. Multiply that value with your database page size. This is the allocated space on disk.
In this tutorial I will show you how to install multiple separate Firebird 2.1 servers on a single Host
