Firebird Free on the Cloud : Amazon ec2 Debian/Ubuntu

From Amazon AWS console you can launch a ec2 free instance , in my case microinstance (if you don’t want to pay)

Push the button Launch instance AWS Marketplace : type Debian
and select the first one from the list (64 bits version)

Currently selected: t1.micro (up to 2 ECUs, 1 vCPUs, 0.613 GiB memory, EBS only)

Review configuration and push the launch button
with your keyfile generated for example firebird.pem you can now connect to it (initial ssh user is admin for Debian and ubuntu for Ubuntu instance)

ssh -i firebird.pem admin@ec2-xx-xx-xx-xx.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com

after that you can continue to setup firebird on it with the new sudo powers
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Firebird2.5

and then you can connect securely to it using a ssh tunnel (putty can be used on windows to create the tunnel)
http://mapopa.blogspot.ro/2010/11/securing-firebird-using-ssh-tunnel.html

firebird port is secure by default and is closed to outside world on debian/ubuntu it listens to localhost (127.0.0.1) only

Database Workbench 4.4.5 released

Upscene Productions is proud to announce the next
version of the popular multi-DBMS development tool:

Database Workbench 4.4.5 Pro

For more information, see here.

The Free Lite Editions will be released at a later stage.

Database Workbench supports:
– Borland InterBase (6.x – XE )
– Firebird ( 1.x, 2.x )
– MS SQL Server/MSDE ( 7, 2000, 2005, 2008, MSDE 1 & 2, SQL Express )
– MySQL 4.x, 5.x
– Oracle Database ( 8i, 9i, 10g, 11g )
– Sybase SQL Anywhere ( 9, 10, 11 and 12 )
– NexusDB ( 3.0 and up )

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DBD-Firebird version 1.18 is released

Firebird Perl driver version 1.18 is released with the following changes

  • a bit more verbose ok() calls in 90-event-ithreads.t
  • disable threaded event tests under AUTOMATED_TESTING
  • Makefile.PL: check for ‘ibase.h’ presense in potential include dir
  • allow empty (but still defined) DBI_PASS/ISC_PASSWORD for tests
  • add support for FIREBIRD_DATABASE in tests’ environment
  • adjust double tests to not fail with -Duselongdouble perl builds
  • fix statement attr returns and rework 40-alltypes.t
  • update installation notes wrt threaded perl and OpenSUSE
  • add missing pointer initialization (RT#92821, Vadim Belov)
  • dbd_st_finish: ignore “cursor already closed” error when closing the cursor
  • dbd_st_execute: finish the statement if still active (RT#92810, HMBRAND)
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