Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
Firebird layer requested for symfony project
mojoPortal Wins Best Other Open Source Content Management System
mojoPortal has won “Best Other Open Source Content Management System” in the 2007 Open Source CMS Awards sponsored by PACKT Publishing. (Other means built on something other than PHP, mojoPortal is built on C# ASP.NET) [And works with firebird 2.0.x too]
Huge thanks to our community and the judges and the good folks at Packt Publishing for honoring us with this award!
Firebird 2.0.3 included in Ubuntu 7.10 (gutsy)
firebird backend for django – progress
working with firebird from shell script (bash or D.O.S)
In this article is described how to run sql scripts from the shell (bash or D.O.S)
http://www.vivaolinux.com.br/artigos/verArtigo.php?codigo=7109
Firebird Interbase Auditor — app of the day
Generating system of code for audit of database Firebird/Interbase. Developed in FreePascal.
FB cluster for beggars
Currently, if server’s host has more than one IP, FB uses only
first one. Attached patch lets it use up to eight. It’ll allow to
establish Redundant Array of Inexpensive Servers, just having added
more addresses to DNS, thus gaining fail-safety (or/and – if round-
robin turned on – load balancing).
Here is the patch and the thread
Firebird 2.1 Beta 2 is available in gentoo portage system
Here you can see the package details
Taking the blinkers off
Iwas skimming and saw this article: Choosing the “Right” DBMS Engine. It piqued my interest because I’ve used a lot of databases over the years (Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Access, IDMSX, Btrieve, probably others I’ve forgotten) and as with anything, you only use a small number of them extensively at any one time so you quickly get out of date on the pros/cons of each (particularly as I’m not in the business software world any more so my DB usage has decreased). So, I thought this would be an interesting article to read if it compared and contrasted a few based on the current situation…
[ED:and here is what Steve found in the article]