SQL Point/Blog of the Week

For those of you data hounds out there that use open source databases.

May I suggest the excellent Firebird, coupled with IBexpert, as opposed to mySQL.

I have found it a heck of a lot easier to design and implement stored procedures. It is open source and rock solid.
That is J. J. Walter’s opinion about firebird , expressed in his blog.

Coverity Open Source Defect Scan of Firebird

Hello Firebird Developers,

I’m the CTO of Coverity, Inc., a company that does static source code
analysis to look for defects in code. You may have heard of us or of our
technology from its days at Stanford (the “Stanford Checker“). The
reason I’m writing is because we have set up a framework internally to
continually scan open source projects and provide the results of our
analysis back to the developers of those projects. Firebird is one of
the 32 projects currently scanned at:

http://scan.coverity.com
Read more

Intraweb Studio uses Firebird

IntraWeb Studio is a professional Content Management System (CMS). It enables you to edit and manage your website in a very efficient and cost effective way.
All of your files and documents for a web site are kept in a repository. The repository may be located on your development machine or on an external repository server (IWS Pro and up). The repository is implemented in an SQL based DBMS. Currently IWS supports FireBird, IWS Personal and Desktop edition use an embedded version of FireBird – no special setup is required.

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