Author: Cantu
I'm the owner of the Firebase.com.br site and the author of the books Firebird Essencial, Firebird 2 and Migration Guides to Firebird 3, 4 and 5. Loving Firebird even before it was born!
Know your server
Article in Sinática blog talks about architectural differences between SQL Server and Firebird.
OpenSQL Camp
Open-source databases have become quite prominent over the last decade, in large installations as well as small ones. MySQL and PostgreSQL are the best-known open-source databases, but SQLite, Firebird, and CouchDB are also popular in some corners, and offer compelling features of their own. In some cases, users aren’t even aware that they have installed a database: For example, the Firefox Web browser comes with an installation of SQLite, which it uses to manage preferences and passwords.
Read full article here.
Windows Authentication in FB 2.1
Mario Cornejo talks about the Windows Authentication feature introduced in Firebird 2.1 in his blog. With this feature, you can login to your database using a Windows user.
VM with FB+Ubuntu+Mondrian
There is a Firebird VMware applicance available for download. It contains: Ubuntu 8.04 x86, Firebird V2.1.1 (SuperServer) and Mondrian V3.0.4 with their foodmart example already set up with Firebird.
Delphi 2009 is out
But still no “official” support for Firebird, as Nick Hodges states in this podcast. BUT, rumors says that there will be news about this in the future.
Anyway, Firebird users has tons of third party access components (IBO, FIBPlus, InterXpress, UIB, Zeos, etc. etc.) to be used with Delphi so, no official support doesn’t mean any big problem for us.
Check the press release information here. This is the first Delphi version released after CodeGear was sold to Embarcadero.
Get IBProvider with 20% discount!
All attendees of the 6th world-wide Firebird Conference can order IBProvider Professional Edition with 20% discount . Check more here.
Mondrian with Firebird – part 1
See how to set up Mondrian (Open Source OLAP server) to be used with Firebird, in Thomas Steinmaurer’s Blog
LewisC’s Database Survey
Ok, Firebird users, let’s make some noise!
Additional commentary on the open source database market
Read more in Alex Fletcher blog. The post is a special comment for his previous article “Thoughts on the open source database market“.