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Here is the tutorial with screenshots in French , but from images you can follow the lazarus wizzards and it should be ok in any language                    

If you get this message in firebird.log Fatal lock manager error: semaphores are exhausted, errno: 1 It means that you sould try to increase semaphores count in firebird.conf.                    

But still no “official” support for Firebird, as Nick Hodges states in this podcast. BUT, rumors says that there will be news about this in the future. Anyway, Firebird users has tons of third party access components (IBO, FIBPlus, InterXpress, UIB, Zeos, etc. etc.) to be used with Delphi so, no official support doesn’t mean any [...]

Server generated values - not only autoincrements are very useful think. Entity Framework supports two types “Computed” and “Identity”. When you update or insert entity, these fields are automatically refreshed according to state in database (after calling SaveChanges). For more info look at StoreGeneratedPattern.                    

After a long struggle on Devshed forums I decided to try on my own, after all I know Firebird and don’t see why it and ColdFusion can’t play nice together … infact they did, and easily.                    

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 …

Today was announced that Embarcadero is buying CodeGear (Borland division responsible for programming tools, including Delphi and InterBase).

We’ve been using Firebird as infovark’s SQL database for several months now.

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.

How to enable firebird support in xampp http://www.llodra.es/archives/93

This Debian security advisory is a bit unusual. While it’s normally our strict policy to backport security bugfixes to older releases, this turned out to be infeasible for Firebird 1.5 due to large infrastructural changes necessary to fix these issues. As a consequence security support for Firebird 1.5 is hereby discontinued, leaving two options to administrators running a Firebird database: I. [...]

I having been trying to connect (without success) to a Firebird server from OOo 2.3.[ED:but in the end it was solved by using this guide and it was fast too ]

You can read the progress reports for this year on various engine development areas Dmitry Yemanov, 2008-02-01 Vlad Khorsun, 2008-01-27 Adriano dos Santos Fernandes, 2008-01-27 Alex Peshkov, 2008-02-02

http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/index.php?page=FirebirdSQL+Reference Has MySQL updated to 6.0 and PostgreSQL updated to 8.2. Some pages will request a login. That is because we are using private information to provide them and can’t allow access in the public domain.

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 [...]