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Another great new feature of Firebird 2.5
Other than CREATE USER something really valuable has been added, the ability to query other databases.
Firebird SuperClassic - Another option
Called SuperClassic, it will be the basis for the multi-processor support that we’ll see in Firebird 3.0.
Don’t lose count. Starting from Firebird 2.5 you will be able to choose among SuperServer, ClassicServer and SuperClassic.
Basically SuperClassic is like ClassicServer. Only instead of a process for each attachment it uses a single process with a thread for [...]
The Darwin Race of Languages
The Darwin Race of Languages is a “competition” started by Bart Roozendaal to check what programming language is better. It seems that they will choose a kind of application that need to be developed, and participants will use the language of their choice to code it, and in the end, they will choose which one [...]
Firebird 1.5 SQL Temporary Reference Update
This guide documents the changes made in Firebird 1.0 and 1.5 SQL since the fork from the open-sourced InterBase 6.0 codebase.
Here is the Pual Vinkenoog’s announcement on firebird-docs list
Just uploaded a Firebird 1.5 SQL Update Reference to this temporary location:
http://www.firebirdsql.org/devel/doc/manual/temp/
You [...]
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Firebird qli.exe scripts documentation
Does someome have any links or documentation for qli.exe?
I recently used qli.exe scripts for fixing BD structure corruption as described in http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&page=ibp_db_corr , since then and I’ve been searching for information about qli commands or scripts but it seems not to be so much information about it.
Near the bottom of this page is a download link for the qli syntax [...]
Open Source Awards Accepting Nominations - Firebird mention
Is open source software a part of your daily computing life? Now is your chance to sound off about it. Sourceforge.net, an online community that hosts open source projects, is accepting nominations for its annual Community Choice awards.
[ED:Read the rest of the article here
At the end Firebird is mentioned for the last year awards]
. It’s [...]
Firebird Experts Forum - fastest forum i have ever seen is powered by firebird
The forum here is created using the phpBB Software, available on http://www.phpbb.com. It is a great and free Open Source Solution and since version 3, it has full support for firebird. This installation uses apache 2.0, phpBB 3.01, php 5.21 and firebird 2.1 on windows 2003 server.
If you never installed a WAFP Server (WIndows+Apache+Firebird+PHP) on [...]
remember to upgrade to firebird 2.0.4 or firebird2.1
Stack-based buffer overflow in Firebird before 2.0.4, and 2.1.x before 2.1.0 RC1, might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long username.
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0467
Security vulnerability in Borland InterBase
A security vulnerability discovered early this year in open source database Firebird also affects Borland’s InterBase. The security vulnerability allows …
Firebird ports for Intanium and hppa to be released soon
If you watch the debian building logs for different architectures then there are a few ones left to be done , Itanium , Hppa and Alpha (dead one)
http://buildd.debian.org/build.cgi?pkg=firebird2.0
and seem that this will be solved very soon
CodeGear sold to Embarcadero
Today was announced that Embarcadero is buying CodeGear (Borland division responsible for programming tools, including Delphi and InterBase).
Get to know FB in 2 minutes - Updated!
With the recent release of Firebird 2.1 final, it is time to update the “Get to know Firebird in 2 minutes” paper. English (PDF/HTML) and Brazilian Portuguese is already up to date (revision 1.2). You can help translating/updating the document to other languages.
[Upd] German, French and Czech versions are now updated too.
Infovark is using firebird
We’ve been using Firebird as infovark’s SQL database for several months now.
Compare it yourself
This slides are from Michael (Monty) Widenius, original MySQL author, and talks about the future of MySQL, problems, and why he thinks MySQL is not really Open Source. Interesting read to be compared with Firebird.
NULL Handling in SQLite Versus Other Database Engines
The goal is to make SQLite handle NULLs in a standards-compliant way. But the descriptions in the SQL standards on how to handle NULLs seem ambiguous. It is not clear from the standards documents exactly how NULLs should be handled in all circumstances.
xampp and firebird
How to enable firebird support in xampp
http://www.llodra.es/archives/93
Going distributed with Plastic 2.0
One of the most important new features in Plastic 2.0 is the distributed system. Today I’m going to talk about the set up I’m using to work from my laptop, disconnected from any network, and how I use the distributed system to synchronize changes back and forth.
New Firebird packages fix several vulnerabilities in debian
This Debian security advisory is a bit unusual. While it’s normally
our strict policy to backport security bugfixes to older releases, this
turned out to be infeasible for Firebird 1.5 due to large infrastructural
changes necessary to fix these issues. As a consequence security support
for Firebird 1.5 is hereby discontinued, leaving two options to
administrators running a Firebird database:
I. [...]
SQL Compact Edition or Firebird Embedded ?
I need to choose an embeded database for my Windows desktop application programmed in C# .NET.
Firebird JDBC and OOo 2.3
I having been trying to connect (without success) to a Firebird server from OOo 2.3.[ED:but in the end it was solved by using this guide and it was fast too ]
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firebird2.0 package is now included in debian etch backports (stable)
firebird2.0 package is now included in debian etch backports (stable)
http://packages.debian.org/etch-backports/firebird2.0-super
for using the etch stable backports read this reference
firebird 2.0 package is also included in testing
http://packages.debian.org/lenny/firebird2.0-super
and unstable
http://packages.debian.org/sid/firebird2.0-super
Firebird Developer Progress Reports for this year
You can read the progress reports for this year on various engine development areas
Dmitry Yemanov, 2008-02-01
Vlad Khorsun, 2008-01-27
Adriano dos Santos Fernandes, 2008-01-27
Alex Peshkov, 2008-02-02
Playing with Django and Firebird
I’ve been messing around with Django for a while now and having fun. It reminded me of why and how I got started in this field.
[ED:There is an nice firebird mention ]
Using Apache, Webware and Firebird as the database I set out to build something.
Firebird? Yes anything to avoid the MySQL bandwagon. I couldn’t say [...]
FirebirdSQL Reference - up again
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.
Sun buys MySQL
Sun Microsystems Announces Agreement to Acquire MySQL. More information here.
Origin of the firebird/interbase port 3050
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 [...]
Open-source security moves to next step
More about Coverity tests.
The Compete Guide to ODBC Escape Sequences in Firebird and Interbase (with ibprovider)
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, [...]
lazarus 0.9.24 released
The Lazarus team is glad to announce the 0.9.24 release. This release is based on fpc 2.2.0.
This release can be downloaded from the
sourceforge download page.
Testing Firebird 2.0 with C# - video
Testing Firebird 2.0 with C# - video on youtube.com
Secure PHP+Firebird installation on unix/linux systems
With the growing concerns regarding comment SPAM, XSS attacks, security breaches, etc, we should spend some time learning how to defend ourselves against such threats.etc. So, let’s focus on securing our PHP server, thus barring most of the attacks from the start.
http://www.alberton.info/secure_php_installation.html
How to influence Firebird’s roadmap
Maybe a few people know (or use it), but anyone can actually influence in what new features should appear in the next FB version, or what bug should get priority in fixing, etc. This can be done in the Firebird Tracker. The “Find Issues” menu item can be easily used to find out what new [...]
Do you protect your databases?
Hacker finds 492,000 unprotected Oracle, SQL database servers
You can protect your Firebird server by blocking (Firewall) internet access to port 3050 in your database server. Changing the Firebird port to other than the default one may also help to difficult attacks.
howto install firebird odbc driver for unixodbc (from source )
Here is an small guide on installing firebird odbc driver from source (alternate you can install it from binary repository )
A good reference to unixodbc is located here
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first step is to have [...]
And the Winner is —
For those who are curious to see the trophies we won in the recent Sourceforge.net Community Choice awards, there’s a photo to view. The gizmos make horrible noises. The engraved marble plinths weigh 2 Kgs each…
The awards party was an blast , And i liked This “screensaver” video that played on monitors during [...]
Firebird Debian page updated
Reasonable effort is made keeping this page up to date, but due to the quasi-static nature of the information contained herein, it may get forgotten every now and then
One of the more interesting news is the firebird repository move to git
KInterbasDB Leader Drowns
It was with sorrow that we learned of the death last month of David S. Rushby, aged 27, in a drowning accident in the Black Sea at Anapa, Russia. David has been the sole developer and maintainer of our KInterbasDB Python interface for some years. For the last nine months he worked as project manager [...]
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