Creating an auto incrementing column in Firebird
or in any database that supports triggers and generators (aka sequences)
The answer is well known however the question comes out quite often, be it in an Oracle, Firebird or PostgreSQL forum
SEFIP now uses Firebird
SEFIP is an application used by almost 1.5 millions of companies in Brazil to collect/pay social welfare tributes. It is distributed by Caixa Econômica Federal (a federal bank), and in its latest version (8.3) it replaced InterBase 6.0 with Firebird. With this change, Firebird embedded installed servers base in Brazil grow in some millions.
You can find the announcement here (in portuguese – self extract exe containing a PDF file).
Firebird Embedded and web sites
Can I (Dean Harding)make a simple suggestion:
Do not use Firebird in Embedded mode in a website
Firebird 1.5.4 Release Candidate 1
Pre-release builds of a release candidate for Firebird 1.5.4 are ready for testing.
OpenDBX 1.1.9 (Development) released
Release focus: Minor bugfixes
Changes:Only two updates were made compared to 1.1.8
Firebird and VB.net blog continue
This time with new articles
Sequoia 3.0 beta 2 (Development) released
Release focus: Major feature enhancements
Changes:This release includes a long list of feature improvements and bugfixes. A new embedded recovery log has been implemented for a transactional log without configuration. New demos are based on these new features. Other usability improvements and performance enhancements are also part of this release.
Firebird Applets with JDBC
an interesting thread on http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5119208
Version 2.99.2 version of libgda and libgnomedb released
First beta version of libgda/libgnomedb (version 2.99.2) have been released.