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Other than CREATE USER something really valuable has been added, the ability to query other databases.                    

In the last post I commented that I had a test-bed application, based on Apache, PHP and Firebird, and once the problem with the images was solved I could finally start doing the actual performance testing/tuning that I originally wanted to do.  The only major changes from the last post is that I’ve now upgraded the database engine to the [...]

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 [...]

This feature was requested on ubuntu bug tracker and now  fix  is released in firebird2.0 for Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firebird2.0/2.0.3.12981.ds1-16 and in firebird2.1/firebird.2.0 for debian http://packages.qa.debian.org/f/firebird2.1/news/20080523T050204Z.html

I’ve run some data load tests with various databases using DBMonster, so connecting to databases through JDBC on a WindowsXP personal computer. Here are the results, in both cases I loaded 100 rows in the parent table and 1000 in the child table, with foreign keys enabled.

If you watch the debian building logs for different architectures then there are a few ones left to be done , Itanium , Hppa and Alpha (dead one) http://buildd.debian.org/build.cgi?pkg=firebird2.0 and seem that this will be solved very soon

Firebird allows remote connections to the administrative account without verifying credentials. The default configuration of Firebird before 2.0.3.12981.0-r6 on Gentoo Linux sets the ISC_PASSWORD environment variable before starting Firebird, which allows remote attackers to bypass SYSDBA authentication and obtain sensitive database information via an empty password. http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1880

He doubled his performance by just switching the firebird client : We’ve just built and tested ‘libfbclient.so’ from the head branch and tested it against the release version 2.0.3. In other words, we only switched out the client library, and left the database server itself intact at version 2.0.3. The performance improvement is huge: fbclient-head: 6% processing time spent in ‘futex’ fbclient-2.0.3: [...]

With the recent release of Firebird 2.1 final, it is time to update the “Get to know Firebird in 2 minutes” paper. English (PDF/HTML) and Brazilian Portuguese is already up to date (revision 1.2). You can help translating/updating the document to other languages. [Upd] German, French and Czech versions are now updated too.

jachguate’s blog in Spanish about new features introduced in Firebird 2.1

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

The Evolution Payroll service-bureau system from iSystems, LLC employs a three-tiered architecture, with the backend being one or more Linux servers running the Firebird SQL database. Evolution is able to split the load across multiple DB servers on a per-client basis. As Service Bureaus grow, it’s common to add new DB servers to the system, [...]

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

I’m using last jruby release with rails 2.0.2 and activerecord-jdbc-adapter. Here is the rest of the article http://www.forniol.cat/?p=91 

when you upgrade in debian from firebird 1.5.x to 2.0.x beware of some UDF issues