I wrote my last post about enabling booleans in Firebird after several hours of poking around in database code trying to get my query to execute without errors. Once it worked, everything seemed great. But I missed an important step: I hadn’t tried to write anything back to the database yet.
Jiří Činčura Blogged about his impression on Amazon’s microinstance :
Few months ago I was playing with different VPS providers and I was also considering deploying the application to some “small instance” cloud. I came to Micro Instance of Amazon EC2. Part of the solution I was doing research for is Firebird database and because the pricing looks good, I tried to install Firebird (2.5 SuperClassic) on this instance.
Here is the changelog . Revision 2106 already imported from debian sid.
From the about box :
TURBU is an RPG-building engine currently under development. It is being written by Mason Wheeler, and will be able to create and edit RPGs with a wide variety of customizable options, including importing existing project from RPG Maker 2000 and 2003.
And here is the blog post and the message With several advantages listed
I’ve added a bunch of new Event Builder editors, plus music-playing capabilities, but probably the biggest change is to the project database. I’m changing the storage mechanism from the old, built-in file format to a Firebird database.
Here is the blogpost with the solution to add boolean domain support to DBX
The best tweet for today is one from EricMan:
To convert a database from MS SQL to Firebird, we need test the abstraction layer. About to start writing tests for 237 different queries…
