Pure Python Firebird Library
On Firebird Python mailing list there is an interesting thread about rewriting Firebird Python Driver
Here is Pavel response Read more
Category: Technical Articles
Technical articles, How-tos, guides, etc.
Building Firebird 2.5 from Debian git repository
These are the general notes on building Firebird 2.5 from debian git , and it should work on any debian based distro like ubuntu or others Read more
Testing Firebird Embedded with C#
New article: Start working with Firebird
IBProvider announce the artcile: Start working with Firebird
Table of content:
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What is Firebird SQL Server?
What Firebird version to choose?
Firebird installation: choosing server type
Firebird Super Server
Firebird Classic Server
Firebird Embedded
If it is difficult to choose
Start working with Firebird
New Firebird database creation
Firebird security
SYSDBA User. Changing default password
Connection to Firebird from client’s application
Firebird and VBScript, Visual Basic, VBA
Firebird and Delphi
Firebird and .Net
Firebird and C++
Firebird database editing
The List of Firebird administration utilities
Useful links
Original manual: Firebird
Timeout for wait transactions in FirebirdClient
rfc: TRUNCATE TABLE in Firebird
Vlad Khorsun posted on Firebird-Architect
One of the often task in ETL applications is to quick erase all data in some table(s). Often amount of data is big or huge (tens of millions records). In Firebird we have two choices currently – DELETE all rows or RECREATE TABLE. Both have its own drawbacks. DELETE produced a lot of record versions to clean up, its slow as works row-by-row basis and fire triggers which is almost always is not needed. RECREATE is free from this drawbacks but it will fail if there is dependencies and all related objects such as triggers, indices, constraints must be recreated too. Read more
Firebird and MSVC8 run-time. Again
Vlad Horsun wrote on Firebird-Devel list
After reading MSDN articles about assemblies, side-by-side installation,
context activation API, etc, i think i have an idea how we can avoid (in most
cases) requirement to install MSVC8 runtime via Windows Installer and just
deploy it with our binaries. Read more
Howto install Firebird 2.1.x Classic on Debian Experimental
Here are my notes on installing/using Firebird 2.1.x Classic and Flamerobin .9 on Debian , soon i will update the ubuntu wiki page
Firebird on Solaris10 and Sun T2 build is completed
Installing and libdbi abstraction layer for Firebird c api
If you wish firebird C api were simpler to use similar to dbi api that is used in the perl world
then now you can with the help of libdbi and it’s nice C api , Here is my howto install such an abstraction layer over the standard Firebird C api.
Here is how the libdbi example should look for firebird