Category: Worth Reading
Content not direct related to FB, but interesting reading.
How to implement FROM_UNIXTIME() like function in Firebird
Here is the example explained in Spanish :
select dateadd(second, 1255033470, cast(’01/01/1970 00:00:00.0000′ as timestamp)) from rdb$database;
C++ coders are needed for a pure Firebird/SDBC LibreOffice driver
Here is the bug with more info on how to help.
This bug needs to be fixed so we can replace Java-based HSQLDB database engine with Firebird in LibreOffice Base.
Help needed testing in big-endian
Adriano just posted on his twitter:
I need help to validate Firebird 2.5 on big-endian machine. Please run this test and report back the result. Thanks! http://bit.ly/MLLwLu
Firebird: connecting to embedded version without password on Linux and MacOsx
Here are the Fulvio Senore’s tips to work with embedded with no password on all platforms : Linux, MacOsx and Windows
Firebird on virtual servers anyone ?
Question of the day is asked on LinkedIn Firebird group and there are quite a few interesting answers
Firebird on virtual servers anyone? I am aware that some IT depts are using virtual servers and I wonder if anyone here has experience of FB on this type of configuration.
Firebird driver for node.js in pure java script
From Henri Gourvest wrote on google plus :
I am working on a firebird driver for node.js, this driver don’t need firebird client library and works on all platforms. Anyone interested ?
Disabling database triggers in FirebirdClient (.Net)
Via Jiří {x2} Činčura blog:
Database triggers are a nice new feature added to Firebird in version 2.1. And as you can do a lot of stuff with them, sometimes you also might wanna to connect without firing these, especially if you made a mistake there and it’s forcibly closing your connection. 
To disable these, standard Firebird utilities have a new switches. But it boils down to the API itself, nothing magical.
And if it’s in API, it could be FirebirdClient, right? In last few days among working on other bugs and my daily responsibilities I had a time to dig into this. And now also from .NET world we can use this feature.
Firebird database that does not burn your data
Firebird database that does not burn your data »
A short lecture to display some key features of Firebird SQL
Libgda 4.2.13 released with Firebird support (work is in progress)
Libgda is a (relatively small) database access library: it is a
wrapper like ODBC but with more features to access several database
engines * features a meta data extractor (to know all about database
objects in a common way) comes with an SQL console application
Work is in progress for Firebird (Check the git tree). There is also a
special feature which allows one to connect to a database hidden
behing a web server (through specific PHP scripts) * LGPL licensed for
the libraries and GPL licensed for the tools.
See http://www.gnome-db.org for more information.
ps: I like the Gda Browser Relation Diagram tool