Collation charts
The goal of this project is to provide information about how various pieces of software (e.g. operating systems, DBMS and others) sort textual data, in the form of easy-to-read charts.
Check Firebird collation charts.
Month: March 2008
New Evans Data Survey
A new survey from Evans Data, about software development and IDEs, mention Firebird as one of the choices for the question “Which of the following databases are you currently using?“. Let’s make some noise! 😉
PS: People who participates in the survey can win US$ 500.
flamerobin – 0.8.5 snapshot for ubuntu 8.04 hardy heron is ready
you can install flamerobin 0.8.5 snapshot into ubuntu 8.04Â by adding these lines in the /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mapopa/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/mapopa/ubuntu hardy main
$sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install flamerobin
$flamerobin
and now check the about box
flamerobin 0.8.5 snapshot ready in the debian repository
you can test it in debian unstable (amd64 and i386) from debian sid repository
http://packages.debian.org/sid/flamerobin
Other binary snapshots for flamerobin 0.8.5 are here
(you can tests on other operating systems: Linux, MacosX, windows,wine)
perl driver for firebird DBD-InterBase-0.48 is released
firebird2.0 package is now included in debian etch backports (stable)
firebird2.0 package is now included in debian etch backports (stable)
http://packages.debian.org/etch-backports/firebird2.0-super
for using the etch stable backports read this reference
firebird 2.0 package is also included in testing
http://packages.debian.org/lenny/firebird2.0-super
and unstable
http://packages.debian.org/sid/firebird2.0-super
bugfixed version of FreeAdhocUDF is published
Yesterday, 2008-03-03, a bugfixed version of FreeAdhocUDF is published and ready for download.
It is strictly recommanded to update your server with this version.
For detailed information see version-history.
LIMIT in SELECT statements in Firebird
The question is, is there a MySQL/PostgreSQL equivalent of LIMIT clause in Firebird?
2007 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards
you can see the final vote results , this year there was some good pr campaign from postgres 🙂 and we didn’t voted so much like in previous years
but we took an honorable 3rd place
It’s weird that sqlite is not on the first row it’s used in firefox/google gears … and disabled in php.ini by default
Choice between MySQL and Firebird? – post of the day
Which one of the two would you choose and why?