Firebird News

What is a good embedded database to use with C#?

Cantu — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:57:50 +0000

Firebird is among the listed options in this StackOverflow question. Let’s “up” it Link sent by Hugues Van Landeghem

Vote in our new poll

Cantu — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:49:19 +0000

“When do you plan to upgrade to FB 2.5?” Vote now in the newest FirebirdNews poll. Just go to the main page and look at the sidebar.

FB 2.5 final is coming

Cantu — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:11:18 +0000

Great news: Firebird 2.5 final release is being prepared.

Firebird Conference : Firebird Day – Friday 1st October 2010 at La Cinémathèque Française, Paris

mariuz — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 05:51:04 +0000

Firebird Day – Friday 1st October 2010 at La Cinémathèque Française, Paris. Speaker list and topics are available – Please register as soon as possible.

Remember to participate on 3d Russian Firebird Conference in Moscow

mariuz — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 05:39:24 +0000

3d Russian Firebird Conference will take place in Moscow, September 29, 2010. The conference will be devoted to the Firebird new versions and to best practices in maintenance and development, with special focus on big Firebird databases. Special speakers at conference: Phillipe Makowski, President of Firebird Foundation, Firebird developers team: Dmitry Yemanov, Vlad Khorsun and [...]

Next Firebird conference in germany will start in about 8 weeks in Bremen, Germany.

mariuz — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 05:36:42 +0000

Next Firebird conference in germany will start in about 8 weeks in Bremen, Germany. http://www.firebird-conference.com News via twitter (please retweetit) also don’t forget about the other conferences (29 Sep in Moscow and 1st Oct in Paris)

BlackFish is Dead , Firebird as Embedded Database replacement

mariuz — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:10:17 +0000

Marco Canto noticed that BlackFish SQL, the .NET database installed with recent versions of Delphi, is not part of Delphi XE… and it seems Embarcadero pulled the plug on it. Would Firebird fit the bill ? , I think it would but tell us your thoughts (pro/cons) : I really think Delphi has lacked a [...]

Seamless support for Boolean and GUID datatypes in Firebird and Entity Framework

mariuz — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:25:13 +0000

It may came as a shock but Firebird does not have direct support for neither bools nor guids. On the other hand people around Firebird are smart and came with more or less standard solutions for both.

Howto Install Firebird 2.5 SuperClassic in #Debian #Sid or #Testing

mariuz — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:24:54 +0000

I have tested the new Firebird 2.5 SuperClassic package on Debian sid and wrote the install instructions (Flamerobin and screenshots are included in the mini guide)

Ibphoenix main website traffic doubles on compete.com

mariuz — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:54:43 +0000

If you saw the trend for firebird main web site then you should see the traffic stats for ibphoenix : it is now doubled

Firebird 2.1.x Compiling instructions on #Freebsd 8.1 – #AMD64 / x86-64

mariuz — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:14:36 +0000

If you wonder how Firebird 2.1.3 stable can be compiled on Freebsd 8.1 wonder no more , Here is the thread with patches and instructions needed . He does have some nice tutorials on the website with Freepascal and extJS

Firebirdsql.org main website traffic doubles on compete.com

mariuz — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:09:29 +0000

seems that traffic for main firebirdsql.org site doubled if you take a look at compete stats for the last year http://siteanalytics.compete.com/firebirdsql.org/?metric=uv

Is it possible to write a similar Firebird database driver?

Andrew Merkulov — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 03:00:11 +0000

Today we are (IBProvider team) overwhelmingly happy because we have finally released the final build of the 3rd version of IBProvider. Is it possible to write a similar database driver? Of course, you can write it! All you need is a strong desire and 7 years of free time. Exactly the same time it took [...]

How to create Fiebird database via ADODB (ADO Ext)

Andrew Merkulov — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:37:36 +0000

In the new article we describe a new feature of IBProvider – supporting ADOX.Library. There are 2 examples on Visual C# and VBScript which describe how to create Firebird database using ADODB Extensions. See details here: Create Firebird or Interbase database (ADOX, Visual C# .NET, VBScript)

#ASP + Firebird: #VisualBasicScript, #JavaScript and #PerlScript

mariuz — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 21:31:10 +0000

In our example I’ll show you how to use ASP to access a Firebird database via VisualBasicScript, JavaScript and PerlScript. Although not my favorite language, ASP will serve to illustrate the example. Also note that ASP uses ADO technology to access the database. This involves several “layers” so that access occurs. Of course this may [...]