phpBB 3.0 Beta2 released – firebird supported- please test it
We are pleased to announce the availability of the phpBB3 Beta2 package. With this second beta release we are a great step forward.
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Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
Firebird and Visual Studio .NET 2005 Data Designer Access (DDEX)
There is a new chapter in the Firebird Tutorial for .NET: Firebird Data Access Designer (DDEX) installation.
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Firebird marked as stable on gentoo linux sparc architecture
OroTimesheet uses Firebird
OroLogic uses firebird in their product OroTimesheet (Thanks for the tip pabloj)
The case for function based indexes – part two
Some time ago I wrote about function based indexes, showing a PostgreSQL based case, right now I’ll show a Firebird based example, due to the fact that Firebird 2.0 supports Expression Indexes, which are my good old function based indexes.
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Firebird used in an large telemetry system – they need an developer
We are looking for a database developer to work on two related large scale utility radio telemetry projects.
The development uses the Firebird (Interbase) database on a Linux platform with a web based user interface.
The system connects large numbers of remote telemetry units with the database using custom radio hardware and communications
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On Embedded Firebird and nHibernate
Was experimenting with embedded Firebird today with nHibernate. Wanted to see if an embedded database could keep up with a highly proprietary flat file format for data lookups.
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firebird in Chile – firebird.cl
New site for firebird users in Chile www.firebird.cl, Powered by bitweaver and firebird.
News via firebird.com.mx
Flamerobin as a GUI for embedded Firebird – Howto
In general you just need to have Flamerobin connect to Embedded Firebird through local protocol, my setup with Firebird 1.5.3 is like this
Oracle users keen on open source databases (firebird included)
Oracle users are keen supporters of open source software with as many as 60% of Oracle enterprise database sites including open source operating systems. This is accroding to a recent study, Open Source in the Stack, conducted by the Independnet Oracle Users Group (IOUG).
The survey of IOUG members conducted in June 2006 also found that as many as 37% of Oracle users were also running one of the popular open source databases alongside their Oracle implementations. [Firebird percentage is 2% in that report]
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