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Solaris and the 256 File Descriptor Problem
Some of you reading this may remember that back when InterBase 6.0 was released on Solaris we ran into a fundamental problem on Solaris. It seems that since 1992 there has been an open bug documenting Solaris’ file descriptor problem: “32-bit stdio routines should support file descriptors >255.”
When this issue was discovered, we chose to [...]
Firebird has some funny ways of handling passwords
Firebird has some funny ways of handling passwords. The maximum length of passwords that is evaluated is 8 characters. Every character after the 8th is silently ignored. That’s especially funny because the ‘default’ password for a Firebird-installation is ‘masterkey’, which has 9 characters. You can, however, successfully log in to freshly installed Firebird-servers providing the [...]
Don’t silently turn your outer joins into inner joins
Surprised by outer joins not returning the expected results? Looks like they behave like an inner join?
You are probably messing with the join and the where clause
The neglected driver …
Looks like the Firebird team is going to put some effort on the ODBC driver, which has been lying there abandoned for a few years (last activity report is of 2006) despite it’s usefulness in windows desktop apps (at least for me ;))
PHP Firebird driver á la ActiveRecord
A very useful Firebird driver for performing most CRUD database operations in PHP.
GridFox - enklere Grid-basert layout med Firefox plugin
GridFox er en plugin til Firefox som lar deg kontrollere om nettsiden din følger grid-et du har satt opp.
Firebird do you hear the cries of your PHP users?
Do they exist? Do they make you money (or in the case of Firebird meaningfully extend your community)? Would you be unhappy if support would be dropped in PHP 5.3, in PHP 6.0? Do you have ressources to prevent this from happening, by taking ownership of the code in question?
http://pooteeweet.org/blog/0/1176
Jim Starkey: “Well, here we go again”
For those of you who didn’t hear, today is my last day at MySQL, and
Monday will be my first day as Chief cook, CEO, and bottle washer of
NimbusDB, Inc., a software start up so young it doesn’t exist yet.
Nimbus, as the name hopefully suggests, is a relational / semantic
database system designed to run on clouds. [...]
Event Processing Blogroll
Here are some of the Event Processing / EDA blogs I'm subscribed to.
The other day I tried to put something up that would be generated automatically from my Bloglines subscriptions, but there were a couple of quirks, and the feed version didn't work properly, so I deleted it. This time I'm going to do it the old-fashioned way, and I may update it from time to time.
And finally ...
If you want to subscribe only to the EVENT category on this blog, please use this feed:
The other day I tried to put something up that would be generated automatically from my Bloglines subscriptions, but there were a couple of quirks, and the feed version didn't work properly, so I deleted it. This time I'm going to do it the old-fashioned way, and I may update it from time to time.
Aggregators
- CEP News (David Luckham & friends)
Independents
as far as I knowVendors
official and unofficial- BEA
- Coral8
- IBM (Opher Etzion)
- Progress Apama
- RuleCore (Marco Seiriö)
- Streambase (possibly inactive)
- TIBCO (Alan Lundberg, Paul Vincent)
And finally ...
If you want to subscribe only to the EVENT category on this blog, please use this feed:Firebird with Real Basic
If you try to connect with Real Basic here is the How To
Ruby on Rails, Django or TurboGears?
I have a decent desktop accounting type application written in Delphi against a Firebird database that should have a piece exposed on the web. Maybe, in time, there should even be a web based version of the entire program on the web.
FB 2.1 Week of Year Feature
With new functions in FB 2.1 extracting week of year is supported (based on ISO-8601). So this past article is more simple to do with the new syntax :
extract(week from some_date_field)
Advangage/Disadvantage about embedded database engines
I want to implement software which needs a embedded database engine. I search this forum so many times. The language I must use C++. Then I have two methods to choice
LAMP SCHMAMP
PLEASE let the LAMP acronym die already! There are so many alternatives in Free Software land.
L: Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, OpenSolaris, several more.
A: Apache, Nginx, Lighttpd, dozens more.
M: MySQL, PostgreSQL, FirebirdSQL, SQLite, and more…
P: PHP, Ruby, Python, Perl, Groovy, Scala, Tcl, Smalltalk, Lisp, the list can go on forever.
original post was on lwn.net
Firebird - unique index vs. unique constraint
From time to time I got a question about the difference between unique key and unique constraint.
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.
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