Firebird Training for DB Admins: Automating the database backup & restore
In this session we show you how to automate the Firebird backup & restore using Firebird’s command-line tool, GBAK, and the IBExpert server tool; IBExpertBackupRestore
Category: Technical Articles
Technical articles, How-tos, guides, etc.
Vote for Firebird as Database of the Year 2012 at LinuxQuestions
Vote for Firebird as Database of the Year 2012 at LinuxQuestions (must be registered user with at least one post)
Spread the word on all forums and Firebird communities
Twitter conversation : Database index nodes are doubly linked to allow bi-directional scans
Twitter conversation of the day is related to SQL Performance Tip : Database index nodes are doubly linked to allow bi-directional scans
Firebird-Mezzanine = Firebird and Django’s WordPress alternative : Mezzanine
Here are my install instructions on Ubuntu/Debian for Mezzanine CMS
First install Firebird 2.5.2 , Then install django and fdb driver
sudo pip install djangosudo pip install fdbsudo pip install mezzanine
Install django-firebird driver like is described on the github page
Create new mezzanine project:
mezzanine-project firebird-mezzaninecd firebird-mezzanine
create empty database from isql-fb / flamerobin
isql-fb
SQL> create database “localhost:/var/lib/firebird/2.5/data/firebird-mezzanine.fdb” user ‘SYSDBA’ password ‘masterkey’;
SQL> quit;
create local config for firebird
python manage.py createdbpython manage.py runserver
look at the first results after the wordpress import (i was so impressed that i have removed the old wordpress.com account)
next step : blogspot import is in progress
Firebird default character set
Question and answer of the week is related to Firebird default character set by Mark Rotteveel on Stack Overflow
Firebird Training for DB Admins: Firebird database pages
This tutorial takes a brief look at Firebird’s database pages.
For a detailed Database Structure introduction please read Firebird Internals document
Jugglingdb Firebird adapter is ready for testing.
Jugglingdb (NodeJS ORM) Firebird adapter is ready for testing
News via Henri’s tweet
Can not load default Firebird clients (libfbembed.so or libfbclient.so). Check your installation
If you are using Free Pascal / Lazarus to develop applications that needs to access FireBird database, or you need to run applications that has been written using FreePascal/Lazarus and Firebird database, make sure you have installed Firebird client library
Firebird Training for DB Admins: configuration file parameters and database aliases
This session explains a few of the more important firebird.conf parameters.
In this tutorial we take a look at configuring Firebird aliases, files and paths
.NET Data provider : Firebird POSITION unexpected behavior?
Question and Response of the day on the Stack Overflow firebird tag.
The result is a bug filled in the Firebird tracker