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Firebird 1.5 SQL Temporary Reference Update

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 [...]

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Firebird and Suse

By philippe on Thursday 29 May 2008 Since I helped Mandriva to do their packages for Firebird, I jumped and with Michal, we made things happen Users of Opensuse 10.0,10.1,10.3 and future 11.0 but also SLE 10 can now just use the server:database repository  and get Firebird 2.0.4 As soon as the Firebird Project will publish Firebird 2.1.1, [...]

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CodeGear sold to Embarcadero

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

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Performance improvement by using firebird client from cvs head

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: [...]

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Sun to Begin Close Sourcing MySQL - time for alternatives like firebird

“From the MySQL User’s Conference, Sun has announced, and former CEO Marten Mickos has confirmed, that Sun will be close sourcing sections of the MySQL code base.” Read the rest of the article on slashdot There are many posts about firebird too Also another interesting blog about this community split

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General tips for FirebirdCS on Fedora , Centos, RHEL

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, [...]

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SQL Compact Edition or Firebird Embedded ?

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

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Firebird and Rails using jruby

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 

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Firebird Developer Progress Reports for this year

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

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please save ibwebadmin in debian/ubuntu

This package is neither part of unstable nor experimental. This probably means that the package has been removed (or has been renamed). Thus the information here is of little interest … the package is going to disappear unless someone takes it over and reintroduces it into unstable.

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php5-interbase - please provide it again in ubuntu (gutsy/feisty)

I need php5-interbase for development in my job, please provide it again [Seems to be an bug in ubuntu, php5-interbase is not included, also ibwebadmin is not present in the repositories]

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New Camaro db engine - better than Maria

Read the answer to the question “Anyone here ever used the Firebird db engine?”

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Origin of the firebird/interbase port 3050

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 [...]

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Firebird is alive and secure

The following was sent to Charles Babcock at Information week in reply to an article entitled: Open Source Code Contains Security Holes As a developer and administrator of the Firebird Project I completely reject the statement you made in the above article. “The somewhat moribund Firebird project, for example, is listed with 195 identified defects, of which it [...]

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Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters

Recommended by Julia Flanders. Rating system. As a reader, you can filter out stuff that is not highly rated.

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lazarus 0.9.24 released

The Lazarus team is glad to announce the 0.9.24 release. This release is based on fpc 2.2.0. This release can be downloaded from the sourceforge download page.

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Firebird Debian page updated

Reasonable effort is made keeping this page up to date, but due to the quasi-static nature of the information contained herein, it may get forgotten every now and then One of the more interesting news is the firebird repository move to git

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Linux Gains Windows Muscle with LAMP/WAMP/FLAP/FWAP stack

One of the most important recent developments in the open source world is the rise of integrated open source enterprise stacks. Many run on Windows, too, so they offer the Microsoft IT community a range of interesting — and free – alternatives to traditional [...]

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Is time to vote firebird in SF Community Choice Awards 2007

Here is the page for voting firebird http://sourceforge.net/community/index.php/landing-pages/cca07/ News via phoronix.com [See remaining text…]  Last year it was at Linux World Boston where the winners of the Source Forge Community Choice Awards were announced. Among the winners [...]

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FbConsole 0.7.0 released

FbConsole 0.7.0 is an IronPython and Windows Forms console for working with the Firebird database (ED:inspired by flamerobin)

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Firdbird 2.0 vs the World - post of the day on [Firebird-Architect]

rvbyron wrote on [Firebird-Architect]: [See remaining text…]  Hi all, I have seen some comparisons of Firebird to other open source databases, however, the list is not very extensive. Further, most [...]

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Gfix manual added to the firebird-docs repository

After many lunchtimes of testing and documenting, and with a little (!) help from Paul in the Limbo Transactions testing, I have checked in the gfix manual. Onwards to other things now - gpre! Cheers, Norman.

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Multiple buffer overflows in Firebird 2.1

Multiple buffer overflows in Firebird 2.1 allow attackers to trigger memory corruption and possibly have other unspecified impact via certain input processed by (1) configConfigFile.cpp or (2) msgscheck_msgs.epp.

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DB Designer Fork 1.2 released

DB Designer Fork is a fork of the fabFORCE DBDesigner 4. DBDesigner is a visual database design system that integrates entity relationship design and database creation. DB Designer Fork generates SQL scripts for Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, and FireBird. Release focus: Initial freshmeat announcement

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La gestion des transactions dans Firebird

you can read the article translated here La gestion des transactions dans Firebird Présentation du concept de transaction et du modèle transactionnel de Firebird, comparaison par rapport à d’autres SGBD. Avantages et inconvénients, bonnes pratiques de conception et de programmation. Via http://firebird-fr.eu.org/doku.php?id=wiki:rendez-vous2007

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Firebird job for the weekend - on rentacoder

Job for the weekend : Add Stored Procedures To Firebird Database Another interesting one is about crypting stored procedures in Firebird. Keep your eye on the Firebird related jobs

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Follow the Progress of JRuby on Rails

Charles Nutter has been keeping an updated page of Rails test run results that shows progress towards the goal of a fully-functioning JRuby on Rails. Members of the JRuby team have already demonstrated Rails applications working on JRuby, and even ActiveRecord talking to databases via JDBC. To be clear, what we’re talking about here is [...]

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Some basic PHP calls for use in Delphi for PHP or pure PHP

I was doing some coding today and couldn’t find some routines I’ve used often in the past. Since I had to search for them, obeying my rule, they get posted here. Maybe they can be of use to others.

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Testing a Non-Rails Application Using Rails

Rails developers working on enterprise software projects are suprised to discover the lack of automated tests in many mature web applications. As frustrating as this can be, A lack of automated tests is also a tremendous opportunity to

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DatabaseLayer 1.7.1 Released

DatabaseLayer is a wxCode library written to offer a JDBC-like API to database access. For a summary of the functionality offered by DatabaseLayer, visit http://wxcode.sourceforge.net/docs/databaselayer/summary.html. The main web page is located at http://wxcode.sourceforge.net/docs/databaselayer/. At this time, the supported database backends are SQLite, Firebird, PostgreSQL, MySQL, ODBC, Oracle (partial), and TDS (which includes MS SQL [...]

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Wahoo! I did it! The last part of a WP-DB.PHP for Interbase/Firebird

I knew 9 years of IB/FB experience would come in handy. [ED:wordpress firebird conversion in progress] [See remaining text…]  wp-db is the mini database abstraction layer for WordPress. It allows you to run WordPress on various [...]

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