Firebird 2.1.2 and Php 5.1.6 on CentOS 5.3
Here are the notes for installing php firebird support in CentOS 5.3 using the php 5.1.6 from it’s own repository and Firebird 2.1.2 from EPEL-Testing repository
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Technical articles, How-tos, guides, etc.
Firebird packages for Fedora, Centos, RHEL
It’s official now, Philippe Makowski is the maintainer of Firebird packages for Fedora and Epel (Centos and RHEL packages) and Firebird packages get pushed into Fedora repositories.
Here is the guide for Centos5.3 you must enable the epel-testing for centos
# rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm
This is done by editing the /etc/yum.repos.d/epel-testing.repo file (installed by the previous rpm command) and changing the first “enabled=0” to “enabled=1”.
php5.3 drivers for firebird and pdo on Fedora 10/11
Please PHP users tests this repository for fedora linux 10/11 also for Centos 5.3
http://blog.famillecollet.com/post/2009/05/08/PHP-5.3.0-RC2-en
if you find bug, report here : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499036
64 bit Firebird 2.5, and Solaris Sparc
Looks like the job is already done… Paul wrote on the blog . It was posted on devel-mailing list related to solaris threading using pthreads
“I confirm that the issues are fixed in HEAD. I confirmed this on 64-bit Solaris Sparc, built with the Sun Studio native compiler – using pthreads!!!”
How cool is that! Thanks very much guys for the quick turn-around.
Also, big thanks to Alex for his assitance with this port!!”
Firebird Embedded reviewed
I was looking for a small and powerful database in order to fulfil the requirements of my last project. Because the database will be running locally I took the decision to use an embedded database. After a few searches over the Internet and some embedded database comparison reviews, I found Firebird which is actually a powerful but unknown (yet) relational database system. Here are some great features of the Firebird embedded database version:
JbConsole 0.2.0 released
JbConsole is a Firebird console tool. I have tested with Jython 2.5b3 and Jaybird 2.1.6 .
(java 1.6 on Windows XP and java 1.5 on OS X 10.5)
It’s still toy level, but it seems to be sample implementation of Jaybird and Jython.
http://www005.upp.so-net.ne.jp/nakagami/Download/JbConsole_0_2_0.zip
See the screen shot
http://nakagami.blog.so-net.ne.jp/2009-02-09
ED:Translated with google , I like his words about Jython
Swing and Java (JVM) I fast. 驚いた。 I was surprised.
FB start guide in Hebrew
Ido Kanenr has released a Firebird Start Guide in Hebrew language. More information here.
Invitation to benchmark your Firebird environment
my blog entry doesn’t show up yet, so a more information about that here …
I’ve made a ready-to-use TPC-H benchmark package for Firebird available
for download here:
http://www.iblogmanager.com/download/misc/tpch/tpch_firebird.zip
Feel free to use this package to benchmark your Firebird environment in
different server configurations, various page sizes, page buffers, …
Please read the included readme.txt file. This shall have everything
included for running the benchmark. I would highly appreciate if you
could share your results as described in 6) in the readme.txt.
If you have any questions, doubts, feel free to get in touch with me.
Thanks.
Firebird 2.1.2 in debian unstable , ubuntu packages soon
Here is the package for Firebird 2.1.2 in debian unstable I have installed it this way (the small install bug is already fixed in git)
sudo apt-get install firebird2.1-super
dpkg-reconfigure firebird2.1-super
Django 1.1 patches for Firebird Backend
Seems that someone took the task and cleaned up the firebird backend for django 1.1
I will post my results later if it works ok