Sweet-talking Firebird with Delphi
Australian Delphi User Group Symposium – La Trobe University, Melbourne. Helen Borrie will be giving a session on: Sweet-talking Firebird with Delphi
Author: mariuz
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New Debian firebird2 packages fix denial of service
Aviram Jenik and Damyan Ivanov discovered a buffer overflow in firebird2, an RDBMS based on InterBase 6.0 code, that allows remote attackers to crash.
Calling Stored Procedures from Stored Procedures
Proper handling of the return values when calling a stored procedure from another stored procedure can be tricky. Here is the overview of the syntax.
Job Scheduler 1.2.5
This release includes support for SQL Server 2005 and Firebird 1.5.
The Job Scheduler runs executable files, shell scripts, and database procedures automatically (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird, SQL Server, Oracle, and DB2). It processes sequential and parallel tasks and job chains, provides an API for job implementation with Java, Javascript, VBScript, and Perl, and exposes jobs as Web services.
Release focus: Major feature enhancements
Tax System of Open Code
I their latest issue, Bosnian IT magazine INFO published an article about TAMP Project (where I work), and this is one of Firebird success stories…
I have scanned those 3 pages (Bosnian language), and our translator have translated article to English (HTML)
Part of this article is Interview with Federal Tax Administration Director
Contributed by Fikret Hasovic on fyracle.org website
The Big Secret of the OpenSource Community
Several months ago I have written article about Firebird for
Bosnian IT magazine INFO.
Here you can read original text (Bosnian language, scanned pages), and also English translation (HTML)
Contributed by Fikret Hasovic on fyracle.org website
2006 SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards
The 2006 SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards.… time to vote for your favourite database.
MySQL joins Eclipse
Also, open source database provider MySQL on Monday announced it has joined Eclipse as an Add-in Provider member. MySQL plans to contribute to the Eclipse Data Tools Platform project and collaborate with Zend Technologies and others on the proposed Eclipse PHP IDE project.
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dnfbb beta version online
A preview of the new board is now available at http://dnfbb.fbtalk.net/, you will need to register to see more details.
although this is an early beta, any feedback (within the dnfbb forum) is welcome.
[ED:You might notice a short delay when receiving your signup email, or password reminder requests.Here is why]
Small Firebird trigger example
After reading a post in the Firebird forum at Devshed I immediately put up a small example about writing a trigger (and also upgraded my favourite tool, Flamerobin, to the latest version) , here it goes [ED:tutorial written by pabloj]