Content not direct related to FB, but interesting reading.
I need php5-interbase for development in my job, please provide it again 🙂
[Seems to be an bug in ubuntu, php5-interbase is not included, also ibwebadmin is not present in the repositories]
Read the answer to the question “Anyone here ever used the Firebird db engine?”
I have an older VB6 app that I want to extend the functionality, and the new features would require an embedded database.
[Firebird embedded can be used for an old vb6 application, hack is used in many places with delphi]
http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/index.php?page=FirebirdSQL+Reference
Has MySQL updated to 6.0 and PostgreSQL updated to 8.2.
Some pages will request a login. That is because we are using private information to provide them and can’t allow access in the public domain.
I’ve downloaded the latest 2.0.3 Firebird Server for Solaris 10 SPARC,
installed it and had some minor troubles to make it run.
Sun Microsystems Announces Agreement to Acquire MySQL. More information here.
More about Coverity tests.
Here is the question on Firebird-Support group
> How did port 3050 get selected as the “gds_db” service port. Was it
> chosen arbitrarily or is there some interesting story behind it? Maybe
> Jim Starkey’s phone number in Groton? 🙂
No story there at all. It was just a number that nobody else seemed
to be using at the time. And don’t ask me to remember a 25 year old
phone number … I barely remember my current number!
Cheers,
Ann
ODBC Escape sequences has included in ODBC standard and allows write SQL queries which compatible with many DBMS. Firebird and Interbase does not contains own implementation for escape sequences and therefore we have implemented them in IBProvider and now users can write compatible SQL queries for Firebird and Interbase as for MS SQL Server, Oracle, My SQL, PostgreSQL, DB2 and etc.
In a story headlined, “Open Source Code Contains Security Holes,” I referred recently to the Firebird database project as “somewhat moribund.” So imagine my surprise when a reader pointed out it was named project of the month in December by SourceForge, the dominant host of open source projects. Geez. Then there was the case of the supposedly “inactive” FreeBSD Unix.
Read the full response here
