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Database Blues - with Firebird data pump problem
I’ve got a database problem.
So I’m throwing this out to the rather small readership I have here in the hopes that someone knows some SQL code or something that can help us out.
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 [...]
Forced-Writes and Firebird database corruption
If there were statistics on corrupted Firebird databases, I believe more than 80% of them would have something in common: they were running with forced-writes off.
Since Firebird 2.1 forced-writes also work in linux. With that in mind I put together a comparison between the two modes.
What are forced-writes and when to use them?
I hope DBAs [...]
Apache Serves Images Slowly - Testing with Firebird
The application was a test-bed app that uses the FireBird SQL database to handle sessions and dynamic data, all on the same machine. [Performance Tip :Seems that you need to put KeepAlive Off on apache to server many images and too many clients :If you have more clients than available apache children, KeepAlive settings will [...]
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 [...]
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.
connecting with oOo 2.4 to firebird
here are the screenshots and connection string used for openoffice.org 2.4
Beware of Firebird 2.0 Debian package and UDF
when you upgrade in debian from firebird 1.5.x to 2.0.x beware of some UDF issues
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]
Firebird installation, easy way?
What would be the easiest way to redistribute FireBird server?
Firebird DBMS & .NET blog
I’ve created this blog for one reason only. I just starting my first steps in database applications using .NET and I would like to share my experiences that I will face during my journey.
The major thing that affected my decision was the embedded database that gives you the ability to create standalone applications.
Joao Pedrosa’s wiki - post of the day
My use of Firebird started with its precursor, Interbase. I used Interbase for almost two years in a Delphi project, and at the time I was already doing some Firebird tests to see if it was a good alternative to Interbase. It was. It is. But I ended up not using it. From then on, [...]
FireRuby- Anything I can help ? [ blog of the day]
Mocte wrote about FireRuby project and asked how he can help
firebird, flamerobin and ibutils blog of the week
via michele de meo’s blog [ED:article is written in Italian language]
