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Borland/CodeGear dbExpress driver for Firebird?

February 8, 2008 Cantu Leave a comment

In the latest days, some messages coming from a CodeGear person were posted in some Brazilian’s Delphi/Firebird discussions lists, asking for users to report any problem related to the use of the new DBX4 drivers (coming with Delphi 2007) and Firebird.

Previously, FirebirdNews reported that in the latest Brazilian BorCon (2007), it was told that BOR/CG would probably release a Firebird compatible dbExpress driver. Seems that things are really moving in this way.

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Rebuilt Firebird 2.0.3 MacOSX Superserver Kits

February 8, 2008 Cantu Leave a comment

New kits for the Superserver installations on both i386 and PPC can be downloaded now. No changes to the engine but an installer problem has been fixed.

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Best way to open an database in qt(c++classes)

February 8, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

I want to exchange some ideas. I have a class to connect to the database Firebird. All classes that need access to the database is inherited this class. What is the best way to make connection to the database?

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Me on Marc Fleury on Sun purchase of MySQL – replaceable lamp bricks

February 7, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

The last post was supposed to be this one, but I got distracted on how I found it

“Whether you’re using Postgres, SQLite, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, HSQLD, Firebird, Derby, or whatever, you’re benefiting from the popularity of MySQL. If you’re still using Progress, dBase, or Sybase, maybe not.

My point is that MySQL did for databases what Netscape did for the internet, what Apache did for web servers, what Star Office did for alternate word processors, what Sendmail did for email servers, and what JBoss did for J2EE.”

[ED Here is my reply :Bricks can be replaced in the lamp
Why they always forget the MTA or DNS?
They are critical parts of the clusters
Sendmail is replaced by postfix or qmail if you are a sane person (in ubuntu postfix is by default)
Apache is replaced by lighttpd and nginix – better webservers IMHO
mysql by firebird or postgresql
linux kernel is good enough and is better than win or solaris (if you want wamp or samp)

php can be replaced by ruby or perl or python (if it becames bloated like java in version 6.x) ]

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