Firebird News

Firebird has some funny ways of handling passwords. The maximum length of passwords that is evaluated is 8 characters. Every character after the 8th is silently ignored. That’s especially funny because the ‘default’ password for a Firebird-installation is ‘masterkey’, which has 9 characters. You can, however, successfully log in to freshly installed Firebird-servers providing the password ‘masterke’.
I’m working with Interbase and Firebird for more than four years and just now realized that when a co-worker at our company found it out while learning SQL.
The only program that I know that makes note of that is gsec, which prints a warning when setting the password to something longer than 8 characters.

http://daniel-albuschat.blogspot.com/2008/04/passwords-in-firebird.html

[ED:Daniel is working on webkit based browser named arrora ]

Database .NET 2.1.3098 Released

Database .NET is an intuitive database management tool for multi-database.

Features:

Automatically: Create/Shrink/Protect database
Syntax Highlighting
Service Manager
Code Generation
SQL Example Manager
SQL Query Batch
Export to CSV/XML/TXT
Print Query Results
… and much more.

Supports:

MS Access 97-2003 (*.mdb;*.*)
MS Access 2007 (*.accdb)
MS Excel 97-2003 (*.xls)
MS Excel 2007 (*.xlsx)
Firebird (*.gdb;*.fdb)
MySQL
SQL Server
SQL Server CE (*.sdf)
SQLite (*.db;*.db3;*.sqlite)
PostgreSQL
Oracle

All-In-One, Simple and Standalone (no install).
Based on .NET Framework 2.0, Compatible with .NET 2.0/3.0/3.5
Freeware.

ubuntu popularity contest

You can vote firebird2 packages by installing popularity-contest package and then submit your votes here

http://popcon.ubuntu.com/

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eZ Publish, Joomla will add native support for Firebird in the future

If you look at Drupal and also Typo3, they already have multi database support.

Joomla! is currently at the beginning of developing a new Database Abstraction Layer . This new layer should also make it possible for developers to build more support for other database platforms.The new Database Abstraction Layer is not expected to be included in the current 1.5 version nor the upcoming 1.6.

If you want to read more about the new Joomla! called Joda, check there development blog.

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Firebird News

Database .NET 2.1.3098 Released

ubuntu popularity contest

Registration for the 6th Firebird Intl Conference is open!

FB and IBO mentioned in blog post

Installing different versions of the Firebird in the same Operating System

eZ Publish, Joomla will add native support for Firebird in the future