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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 [...]

I need to choose an embeded database for my Windows desktop application programmed in C# .NET.

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 [...]

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

rvbyron wrote on [Firebird-Architect]: [See remaining text…]  Hi all, I have seen some comparisons of Firebird to other open source databases, however, the list is not very extensive. Further, most [...]

Multiple buffer overflows in Firebird 2.1 allow attackers to trigger memory corruption and possibly have other unspecified impact via certain input processed by (1) configConfigFile.cpp or (2) msgscheck_msgs.epp.

Charles Nutter has been keeping an updated page of Rails test run results that shows progress towards the goal of a fully-functioning JRuby on Rails. Members of the JRuby team have already demonstrated Rails applications working on JRuby, and even ActiveRecord talking to databases via JDBC. To be clear, what we’re talking about here is [...]

Myles Wakeham wrote about Delphi for PHP and firebird issues: Well I received my downloadable Delphi for PHP today. I haven’t had a huge amount of time to play with it, but there are some very impressive features, but a couple of ‘critical’ missing features for me.

Developer Progress Reports for Core , DSQL , INTL & Security/Linux Builds (POSIX)

I[William L. Thomson Jr.] recently committed an ebuild for FlameRobin 0.7.5 into Gentoo’s portage repository. Should sync to mirrors in a few hours and users can then emerge flamerobin on Gentoo I have had an ebuild for FlameRobin since 0.4.8. I posted to the list long ago about it I believe. I became a dev a few months back, and [...]

This week we’ve taken a break from the political. So for the LA Update, we have a word with Arjen Lentz about some of the new features in MySQL and the “in development” Falcon Engine.

I have installed an application of ours that uses Firebird 1.5 Embedded on a tablet pc running Windows XP embedded. So far, fingers crossed touch wood and all that, it works well. Again, I have not installed the full server, have not played around with the service manager or anything else, I simply put the empty database on the PC, [...]

Here are some rants about oracle, linux and oss databases Will Oracle ever befriend Linux and actually prove that something can be given in return? At present, Oracle competes with and destroys some of the business that MySQL, Firebird, and PostgreSQL have conquered with Linux and pure Open Source software.

This is a great presentation, Jim throws in a lot of database history and insight into working with MySQL

I’ve just released a new experimental site: http://www.firebirdquestions.net/. It is a searchable and browsable archive of firebird-net-provider mailing list. Noteworthy features: Updated automatically every 60 seconds Search is powered by Lucene.Net and Seekafile Server. You can browse the history by threads. You can skip to next/previous thread by hitting ‘j’/'k’ keys. All e-mails protected. Comments and suggestions are welcome! [...]