Working both with Firebird SQL and PDO (but not yet at the same time) I am interested in the combination of both.
According to the documentation the extension is still in experimental status, but I was still curious about how far it has progressed. I decided to redo the experiments Lorenzo Alberton did in an article in 2006.
I performed these tests on PHP Version 5.3.6 with Firebird 2.5 on a Windows 7 machine.
One happy firebird user looking for a cool Sql Embeeded Database and is ditching Microsoft Access too
I did trials with Firebird, and it really does seem very good, zero admin, and SQL compliant. It is fast, and I had no problems in any of the typical queries I could try on it. I am very satisfied with it, and hopefully will use it for the project for which I raised this question.Hopefully Advantage Server too will be good, but could not get time to review it. After reviewing/using Firebird do not feel any need to try anything else.
This release adds some minor new features and bugfixes.
I have updated the natty package for Firebird 2.5 in the stable ppa with latest release from debian
with one major fix taken from svn branch : the loading of ICU
The next release Oniric will include this fix by default
The organisation uses Debian GNU/Linux on half of their servers, i.e. about 10 systems.
It is used for two web servers, for the mail server and on a system for project administration, running a Firebird database. Debian was chosen since it’s the ultimate form of Open Source, and reliable as well. Since Hivos works for creating a better world, fights poverty and uses No Borders for People
as its motto, choosing Debian is natural.
At work we use a lot of Firebird databases, and so far our system admins checked the availability of a Firebird Database by simply trying to connect via telnet to the port 3050 and see if they would get a response. With this kind of check you can’t really determine if the database is really up and running,
Therefore they asked me if I could write a plugin for nagios which would do a real check to ensure that the Databases are up and running, here is my result.
I chose to write the plugin in python, due it’s simplicity, and because I already wrote some script using the python-kinterbasdb extension
Jiri wrote on his blog :
I recently improved the command logging in ADO.NET provider for Firebird. Let me start with little bit of history and then you’ll see the motivation and current improvements.
This article will describe the development of a fairly large (over 4,000 users) one-man software business, selling an application developed with PowerBuilder and Firebird
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