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Random selection, with a bias ..
Say you want to randomly select your employee of the month, but not so randomly, better, you’d like to give your best employees a bigger chance to be selected based on their rating.
This is just an example, you could be randomly displaying ads from your customers, but giving an higher chance to be displayed to [...]
Firebird on small windows machines
How to put firebird and dotnet framework on small windows machines (based on pentium @233Mhz)
Part 1 http://vault-co.blogspot.com/2008/08/98lite-megacheap-embedded-windows.html
and Part 2 http://vault-co.blogspot.com/2008/08/nano98-windows-in-7-seconds-45.html
Firebird v2.5 Alpha 1 really makes a differance
While on vacation I’ve been working on a pet-project that has been around for many years now. The service is a mobile device chat and is powered by Firebird and PHP.
There used to be lots of problems handling more than 400 simultaneous users, but after a DB upgrade to Firebird v2.5 Alpha 1 things really [...]
Infovark is using firebird
We’ve been using Firebird as infovark’s SQL database for several months now.
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.
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.
ADA (Autonomic Database Agent) - new project
ADA (Autonomic Database Agent) is a project that shows how to use AC concepts using AC techniques to implement autonomic behavior on a DBMS, a very popular kind of application, widely used nowadays and also a field where exploring autonomic concepts will show clear results. [He is using firebird for this autonomic unit]
I found a bug in my library - blog/post of the day
He is using Firebird and c++ for an application , You can read his story (about killing an bug)
I am so happy, I must write somewhere this, after more then a month of complains from a customer I finally solved the problem. He was complaining that my application is getting slower and slower as he [...]
firebird, flamerobin and ibutils blog of the week
via michele de meo’s blog [ED:article is written in Italian language]
New Firebird MemberShip scripts
Someone was asking why the current Firebird MemberShip/Role/Profile Example doesn’t work with the ASP.NET Configuration tool for security.
Hopefully this solves the problem. If it does I would appreciate someone letting me know so that others will also know in the future.
[Some modifications to Membership/Role/Profile Example]
Moving firebird from windows to linux
In this guide Juan Carbajal is showing us how to move firebird databases from windows to linux , guide is written in spanish again
Some of the really interesting stuff with Firebird 2.0 - blog of the day jclement
I’ve been playing with Firebird 2.0 a bit the last couple days. I had played with it in the past (version 1.5) and loved it. Version 2.0 is even better.
Firebird embedded database on Win 98
When using the Firebird database (version 1.5) on windows 98, or (specifically) when deploying applications using the Firebird database to computers with Windows 98. Here are some tips
.net embedded firebird on vista report
It’s a winform .net 2 business app that is very data centric and we tested initially with the embedded FireBird database driver which I had a gut feeling was going to be trouble, but absolutely no problems at all and every aspect is significantly faster than on the same computer with the same hardware exactly [...]
Minimizing the requirements of your application is a good thing
Minimizing the requirements of your application is a good thing.
But what you don’t seem to be aware of is that embedded firebird is essentially
a set of DLLs (or *.so in linux) and the database file. So you only need to
install a few more files _together_ with your application . And the [...]
Future Performance Question - from an big firebird customer
Greg Kay from objectmastery.com wrote on Firebird-Architect list:
Firstly, some background. Our system currently runs on Firebird
Classic 1.5.3, dual CPU opteron 252, 16 gig ram, and SuSE Linux 10.1.
The database is about 25 gig and has 150 - 200 connections and about 1
million transactions a day (between 8am and 8pm). The server mostly
sits at about 30-40% [...]
FBTalk - New Firebird powered Forum is UP
Just a quick note to let everyone know that FBTalk.net is now up and running using dnfBB, a forum designed around firebird. The old forum and all posts/topics are still available.
All users who were registered at FBTalk should now have received a new email
with details on how to activate their new account.
Rgds
Simon Carter
Local backup of your database
We recently came across a neat and free backup scheduler that works for Firebird database tables. [it’s about FIBS backup scheduler]
firebird components for silent installer - it’s super
I [benomathew] was working on a setup program that installed an emergency server on one of the workstations when the database server is not available.. the program i created did a silent install of the firebird engine (by using the /SILENT command line parameter).. firebird has the following components
who is working with firebird - real world blogs
Work undertaken:
Today I created a small VS 2005 demo project in order to understand how to silently deploy and update an embedded Firebird database using ClickOnce technology. This helped me to gain a basic understanding of the key concepts. Tomorrow I intend to continue this work by considering some more advanced scenarios.
Read more on [...]
blog of the day about firebird rc3
We actually have been deploying only super-servers, on beefy boxes with 2x dual core with 2x HT each (8x processing unit in total), because of our lack of experience in classic servers. Well, those server boxes do run other applications so you don’t get CPUs sitting there doing nothing, but I still wonder which one [...]
