Firebird related news
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
From www.firebirdsql.org:
It has been found that V.2.5 Classic for Linux has problems with AST delivery if used with glibc 2.5. With glibc 2.7 it works properly. The situation with glibc 2.6 is unknown for now. If your glibc version is lower than v.2.7, it must be upgraded before using Firebird 2.5 Classic/Superclassic.
here is the mention.
Istallation proved very easy, and intelligently chosen defaults allowed us simply to press ‘Next’ through most of the wizard. A Firebird database is provided
FireAlarm is a server performance and health monitoring tool for the Firebird RDBMS. It is written in the Java programming language and released as open source.
This is a quick guide to the FireAlarm API, which shows how easy it is to register FireAlarm Database Aliases and to add and configure Alarm instances.
Today is the day when you can share your love towards Firebird and the Free Software world (libreoffice , qt , debian)
There are lots of ways to declare one’s love… Here are some ideas on how you can go public and proclaim your love to Free Software/Firebird
ps whey you search for i love firebird i have this example of trim function 🙂
select trim (‘la’ from ‘lalala I love Firebird’) from rdb$database
— returns ‘ I love Firebird’
In a recent survey for the next Firebird Developers Day in Brazil, one of the questions was about the average size of the participants (and/or their customers) databases. A total of 344 people answered, and the result can be seen below:
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20.3% | 70/344 | up to 500MB |
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31.1% | 107/344 | up to 2GB |
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20.9% | 72/344 | up to 5GB |
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17.2% | 59/344 | up to 10GB |
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10.5% | 36/344 | more than 10GB |
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| 100.0% | 344/344 | Summary | |
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PS: Note that this survey was directed only to people who intends to participate in the next Brazilian FDD edition.
