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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/
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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.
Installing firebird 2.0.x client with screenshots
When configuring a Windows machine for use by the Evolution™ payroll service-bureau system, a common step is installing the open-source Firebird database software; this Evo Tip details the process.
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
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