Technical articles, How-tos, guides, etc.
This was tested on the Ubuntu Dapper Drake (that will be released this summer)
I assume you have installed the g++ compiler (with apt-get or synaptic)
download the Firebird 2.0 RC 2 kit from the nearest mirror
DotLucene is an open-source search engine library for .NET. There is now set up a demo site (damnfastdotlucene.org) that tests DotLucene performance on quite a big set of documents
[ED:Lucene.net index can be stored in firebird database]
I have created an Firebird Live CD by adding an firebird-super-server and flamerobin packages.
Here is the small howto.
ps: latter i will upload the iso on the sf.net
Frank Ingermann surprised me [Paul Vinkenoog] with a Generator Guide last week – in DocBook XML! He’d written it some time ago and recently converted it to DocBook as an exercise, because he had to learn DocBook for his work.
It needs a little updating, but I can probably commit it – and build HTML and PDF versions – within a week.
Greetings,
Paul Vinkenoog
There is an example code on devshed.com forums
Read Full article here on debianhelp.co.uk
How to install apache2.2. php and firebird on fedora , you may need google translate
Read more at www.firebase.com.br/fb/…
David Rushby (the autor of the KInterbasDB) has
solved the problem applying such a feature in the code. Thank you David.
Spotted on dotnetfirebird blog
A nice white paper by Roman Rokytskyy that describes the multi version concurrency control system used in Firebird in comparison to IBM DB2 and Oracle 9i.
I found this quote on the Hibernate Tuning blog: [Ed:They linked to the Roman’s Page , Scroll down to “db2 and friends”]
In fact glaring are the benchmarks published by MySQL. I’d put to you that MVCC support is probably more important than a lot of other concerns in transactional computing (as opposed to batch processing and OLTAP type stuff)
There are to different backup Systems in Firebird:
nBackup included in Firebird 2.0 an up
and gBak included in Firebird since humm, good old Borland days back in 199x up to the (still in beta) Firebird 2.0.
When you dont want to struggle with the commandline switches of gbak, you can use the (very useful) GUI-Frontend for gbak developed and provided for free by Talat Dogan: FIBS Firebird-Interbase Backup Scheduler
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