Category: Technical Articles
Technical articles, How-tos, guides, etc.
working with firebird from shell script (bash or D.O.S)
In this article is described how to run sql scripts from the shell (bash or D.O.S)
http://www.vivaolinux.com.br/artigos/verArtigo.php?codigo=7109
FB cluster for beggars
Currently, if server’s host has more than one IP, FB uses only
first one. Attached patch lets it use up to eight. It’ll allow to
establish Redundant Array of Inexpensive Servers, just having added
more addresses to DNS, thus gaining fail-safety (or/and – if round-
robin turned on – load balancing).
Here is the patch and the thread
Installing Perl DBI driver for Firebird RDBMS server
Building firebird 2.1.x from source on ubuntu
this guide is for ubuntu and it was tested on an ec2 xen image
Howto install firebird odbc driver for unixodbc (from source )
Here is an small guide on installing firebird odbc driver from source (alternate you can install it from binary repository )
A good reference to unixodbc is located here
compiling firebird 2.1 on amazon ec2 machine (fedora core 6 x64)
This was done on one xen virtual machine hosted at amazon (called EC2) but this guide can be used for any fedora core 6 machine
Extra Large Instance 15 GB memory, 64-bit platform 8 EC2 Compute Units (4 virtual cores with 2 EC2 Compute Units each)
Unable to access fireruby lib – with firebird 2.0.x and ror
I am getting the following controller exception when trying to access
my newly installed Firebird DB (to replace MySQL) from my app.
Accessing Interbase/Firebird Metadata in Delphi
Post in Steve’s Delphi blog:
I was looking at some old Delphi 7 code of mine when I was attempting to get in behind the scenes of Interbase and Firebird tables and fields to learn a little more about them. I came across these little pieces of information I’d like to share.
Check the full post here.
creating an flamerobin/firebird livecd with ubuntu feisty fawn
folowing an previous guide on creating an firebird/flamerobin livecd for dapper drake (6.06) i created a new guide for the new ubuntu release code named feisty fawn (7.04)
You can download the final live cd from this page