Free Software Linux

The TurboCASH Project is proud to present our Release Candidate 1 for TurboCASH 4.0.1.10 This is the culmination of a years preparation to move TurboCASH to a new platform based on the Firebird database.    This release has been prepared to ship to 81 countries. The biggest change we have made here is to open up the [...]

Morfik Technologies released, this week, version 2.0 of its flagship AppsBuilder product. The new release of the web application development tools adds a multitude of visual design oriented features. In addition to these features, Morfik AppsBuilder 2.0 now includes Firebird 2.1 as its bundled database.                    

We have just completed the code to reverse engineer a Firebird database and build the class definitions used by the Habanero framework                    

Firebird 2.1.1 and Flamerobin 0.9 are added to altlinux. AltLinux is an Linux distro that will be used in all the Russian Schools Other related news about altlinux you can grab from google [Ed:so this is a big thing , imagine that firebird will be available to every kid or school there , also in Brazil they [...]

This article shows howto use Firebird Embedded 2.1.x with C# and how to write your first application Here is the original article in Spanish and here is the google translated one                    

I started to implement a DBX4 Driver for Firebird 1, 1.5, 2 and 2.1, it is for Delphi 2007 and 2009, open source and all code is done with Delphi it self.[ED:Please Send  any questions/ideas] Regards,Cesar Romero http://blogs.liws.com.br/cesar                    

I’ve got a database problem. So I’m throwing this out to the rather small readership I have here in the hopes that someone knows some SQL code or something that can help us out.                    

Say you want to randomly select your employee of the month, but not so randomly, better, you’d like to give your best employees a bigger chance to be selected based on their rating. This is just an example, you could be randomly displaying ads from your customers, but giving an higher chance to be displayed to [...]

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                    

While on vacation I’ve been working on a pet-project that has been around for many years now. The service is a mobile device chat and is powered by Firebird and PHP. There used to be lots of problems handling more than 400 simultaneous users, but after a DB upgrade to Firebird v2.5 Alpha 1 things really [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The application was a test-bed app that uses the FireBird SQL database to handle sessions and dynamic data, all on the same machine. [Performance Tip :Seems that you need to put KeepAlive Off on apache to server many images and too many clients :If you have more clients than available apache children, KeepAlive settings will [...]

They use Firebird in their products   http://www.orgbusiness.com/ [ED:  Alex Stanciu told me they use firebird 2.0.3 in their products]

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 [...]