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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 [...]

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

One of the most important new features in Plastic 2.0 is the distributed system. Today I’m going to talk about the set up I’m using to work from my laptop, disconnected from any network, and how I use the distributed system to synchronize changes back and forth.

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

I’ve downloaded the latest 2.0.3 Firebird Server for Solaris 10 SPARC, installed it and had some minor troubles to make it run.

Joe Wirtley started working on a project with the Firebird database server and .net provider

The 5.0 of CentOS release was done on April 12th. This is an guide on how to install firebird 2.0.1 in CentOS 5.

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, [...]

He is using Firebird and c++ for an application , You can read his story (about killing an bug) I am so happy, I must write somewhere this, after more then a month of complains from a customer I finally solved the problem. He was complaining that my application is getting slower and slower as he [...]

Someone was asking why the current Firebird MemberShip/Role/Profile Example doesn’t work with the ASP.NET Configuration tool for security. Hopefully this solves the problem. If it does I would appreciate someone letting me know so that others will also know in the future. [Some modifications to Membership/Role/Profile Example]

Recently I [Hugh Ang] have installed open source database Firebird and its ADO.NET provider. I was really impressed and thought this would definitely be my choice of database for future personal projects. I did run into a few things though.

Note to Readers: First article of this type ever by this author so proceed with caution and without any guarantees.

Here is an guide on howto connect to firebird from openoffice.org in spanish

I’ve been playing with Firebird 2.0 a bit the last couple days. I had played with it in the past (version 1.5) and loved it. Version 2.0 is even better.

Peter’s Gekko wrote :”Just like last time getting the Firebird database working on my new machine was a long way of trial and error.”

It’s a winform .net 2 business app that is very data centric and we tested initially with the embedded FireBird database driver which I had a gut feeling was going to be trouble, but absolutely no problems at all and every aspect is significantly faster than on the same computer with the same hardware exactly [...]

Greg Kay from objectmastery.com wrote on Firebird-Architect list: Firstly, some background. Our system currently runs on Firebird Classic 1.5.3, dual CPU opteron 252, 16 gig ram, and SuSE Linux 10.1. The database is about 25 gig and has 150 - 200 connections and about 1 million transactions a day (between 8am and 8pm). The server mostly sits at about 30-40% [...]

Here is the active thread with the porting efforts . Gobolinux is an pretty interesting distro with new idea to packaging an application (the filesystem is the package manager)