Firebird Foundation new Bronze sponsor
We welcome Cointec Consultores Informática, from Spain, as a Bronze sponsor. Thanks to Jésus Angel García Zarco and his team.
Category: General news
Firebird related news
Generate Custom Insert SQL statements from a csv file
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.
#php pdo on rpm based #linux distros : Mandriva , RedHat , Centos
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
New hotfixes available for Delphi , C++Builder and RAD Studio XE
This fix corrects the error caused when reading an ftMemo field twice using the Firebird dbExpress driver.
Odbc issues and fixes with OpenOffice/LibreOffice
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.
Tip : How can i find size of table in 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.
Multiple Firebird servers in #Ubuntu #Linux
In this tutorial I will show you how to install multiple separate Firebird 2.1 servers on a single Host
Important! Firebird 2.5 Classic/Superclassic on Linux
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.
Firebird used in AVG Internet Security Business Edition 2011
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
Getting Started with FireAlarm a server performance and health monitoring tool written in #Java
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.