Content not direct related to FB, but interesting reading.
An interesting “report” about the results of switching from Hard-Drives to SSD technology in a Firebird sever machine was posted in Firebird-Devel list by Poul Dige. In his specific case, the improvements of speed was very good. You can read the message here.
Helen Borrie from Firebird, winner of the SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards Best Project for the Enterprise category, answers our questions.
Via Adriano’s Twitter Page , You can retweet it
http://twitter.com/sourceforge/status/3717628736 , Maybe we need a retweet button on firebirdnews too
Here is what Milan Babuskov wrote about his experience with Linux Slackware and Firebird related packages on x64 system :
I just installed Slamd64 version 12.2. I know that Slackware -current is 64bit and Slackware 13.0 is out, but out-of-the-box 32bit compatibility of Slamd64 is very tempting, so this is the first 64bit slackware I installed.
Install went fine, and KDE is running in a matter of seconds. Now, time to compile all the needed stuff for development. Basically, all I need is Firebird, FlameRobin and PHP extension for Firebird (i.e. InterBase).
Holger Klemt talks about Firebird at the 2009 European OpenSQLCamp, part of FrOSCon 2009.
Via pytian blog (Sheeri Cabral)
The full presentation will come asap
No’am Newman wrote again about his Bde to Firebird date migration issues:
In continuation of my previous post about problems of inserting/update date fields in FB databases, I did a little poking around and eventually – by trial and error – found the correct syntax:
update data
set datefield = ’01/01/2008′
where id = 1;
No’am Newman wrote about using Firebird:
I’ve spent the last week getting Firebird to work in my occupation psychologist’s office.
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So this week, I’ve learnt the following thingshow to install FB on a network
how to access FB from client computers on that network
how to use the list view component
how to use an FB generator for auto-incremented integers
how to insert/update a date into an FB table[to do]
That’s enough for one week.
The question is on StackOverflow:
I am trying to choose between postgre and firebird databasses. The database will be installed on a windows 2003 server with asp.net 3.5. i don’t want to use sql server because of price issues and I don’t want MySQL I had a bad experience with it and the .net connector and the membership provider.
Douglas Tosi wrote on his blog :
This week I received the Brazilian Active Delphi magazine with a pleasant surprise. My very fist published article.
The XP team is proud to announce the release of 5.7.4. This release features various improvements to the rdbms API:
Jeff Overcash originally made it clear, that IBX doesn’t officially support Firebird, and he has no intention to implement it. Many point at IBObjects and now DBExpress for Firebird support, so why use IBX? Here’s a reason
