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But still no “official” support for Firebird, as Nick Hodges states in this podcast. BUT, rumors says that there will be news about this in the future. Anyway, Firebird users has tons of third party access components (IBO, FIBPlus, InterXpress, UIB, Zeos, etc. etc.) to be used with Delphi so, no official support doesn’t mean any [...]

This is an howto create your own ubuntu live cd with firebird/ubuntu and custom applications ,in guide ubuntu variation used was Xubuntu (is smaller and can be customized easier ) but it works for any hardy release                    

If you get this message in firebird.log Fatal lock manager error: semaphores are exhausted, errno: 1 It means that you sould try to increase semaphores count in firebird.conf.                    

FirebirdConfig is free and provides you with a friendly user interface in order to configurate the firebird operation modifying the firebird.conf file with the most intuitive and functional graphic form                    

Server generated values - not only autoincrements are very useful think. Entity Framework supports two types “Computed” and “Identity”. When you update or insert entity, these fields are automatically refreshed according to state in database (after calling SaveChanges). For more info look at StoreGeneratedPattern.                    

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 [...]

Open source technologies continue to make headway in the enterprise, and none more so, perhaps, than open source database management systems (DBMS). Read full story here.                    

Google led me to a comparison sheet about PostgreSQL and Firebird by AMSoftwareDesign, as it looks a bit outdated I decided to add some infos about the latest Firebird release, see it in action                    

After a long struggle on Devshed forums I decided to try on my own, after all I know Firebird and don’t see why it and ColdFusion can’t play nice together … infact they did, and easily.                    

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

Called SuperClassic, it will be the basis for the multi-processor support that we’ll see in Firebird 3.0. Don’t lose count. Starting from Firebird 2.5 you will be able to choose among SuperServer, ClassicServer and SuperClassic. Basically SuperClassic is like ClassicServer. Only instead of a process for each attachment it uses a single process with a thread for [...]

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 Darwin Race of Languages is a “competition” started by Bart Roozendaal to check what programming language is better. It seems that they will choose a kind of application that need to be developed, and participants will use the language of their choice to code it, and in the end, they will choose which one [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]