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After a long interruption I’m back at Firebird and kinterbasdb and I’m just also back at character set troubles, my favorite pastim My test setup is WinXP, Firebird 1.5.5, Python 2.5.2 and kinterbasdb 3.3pre (20070503). I’m initializing kinterbasdb with type_conv = 200, which is the only sensible choice in this setup, if I’m not mistaken. Now, after some tests, I’d [...]

IBProvider v3 Release Candidate 3 Support of the following codepages added: DOS858, TIS620, BIG5, KSC_5601, GB_2312, SJIS_0208, EUCJ_0208; Bug in the errors handling for OUT-parameters of query was fixed; BLOB-fields access was improved; Memory management was improved; IBProvider v2/v1 BLOB-fields access was improved; Memory management was improved; Source: Interbase and Firebird driver site                    

Survey Results - Primary Database in Use on LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide To Oracle Technology I’m starting to gather the data from my survey. When I get all the data gathered, I will post it as a downloadable file. Until then, I will post some summary data. This data shows the current PRIMARY database in use [...]

How to put firebird and dotnet framework on small windows machines (based on pentium @233Mhz) Part 1 http://vault-co.blogspot.com/2008/08/98lite-megacheap-embedded-windows.html and Part 2 http://vault-co.blogspot.com/2008/08/nano98-windows-in-7-seconds-45.html                    

We are proud to officially announce the release of the ZEOS DBO Library 6.6.3 - stable The Development Team wants to thank all of you very much for supplying us with your feedback, ideas and contributions and also patches and bugfixes. Here are the download links to our latest stable release: ZEOSDBO-6.6.3-stable ZEOSDBO-6.6.3-stable doxygen ZEOSDBO-6.6.3-stable DelphiCode2Doc This download is [...]

How to use a Rails App with Firebird DB 1.5 encoding: NONE and with accents                    

IBProvider v3 Release Candidate 3 [build 3.0.0.4963] NUMERIC-types support was improved. Disabled metadata cache mode performance was increased in 2.5 times. Metadata schemes were updated. Among them in schemes TABLE_INFO and TABLES classification of external (EXTERNAL TABLE) and temporary tables (GLOBAL TEMPORARY PRESERVE/DELETE) was added starting from Firebird 2.1 and Interbase 7.5. Correct processing of active transactions in the [...]

My previous post caused some very interesting discussions on the decisions that I am facing when starting on a new project. The suggestions were as varied as the choices in front of me. It seems that any of the alternatives can do the job, so why don’t I just make a decision and move on? [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Comparing the performance of several operations in FB2.1, OraXE and SQLServerXE using the vendor specific .NET data access drivers, I discovered Firebird was about 3 times faster than the others which were both nearly the same speed.

We are happy to announce the second beta of Jaws 0.8.0 (What we do in life echoes in eternity). And as you know… this is a release which ’should’ work better than beta1 but NOT be used in production systems. What’s new in this version? Lot of enhancement and improvement stuff you will love Oracle and Interbase/Firebird supported New gadgets New plugins Built-in RTL(right [...]

The other day another security issue (this sort of thing happens to the best of them) in Interbase that was fixed in January in Firebird already. More rants on this page http://pooteeweet.org/blog/0/1118

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.

This link is for firebird nomination This link is for flamerobin nomination Last year Firebird was double winner of SourceForget Community Awards!