Technical articles, How-tos, guides, etc.
Someone was asking why the current Firebird MemberShip/Role/Profile Example doesn’t work with the ASP.NET Configuration tool for security.
Hopefully this solves the problem. If it does I would appreciate someone letting me know so that others will also know in the future.
[Some modifications to Membership/Role/Profile Example]
Article in Italian on database.html.it
Sean Riley shares his experience with getting the embedded Firebird to work with FirebirdClient 2.0 in forums.dotnetfirebird.org
From Jiří Činčura’s blog:
Well, a little bit weird heading. But a few days ago there was a really interesting discuss on the Firebird(CZ) list (about the ROW_COUNT variable). During the discussion I’ve decided (with Ivan Prenosil’s kick) to test what will happen if you’ll have more than 2G and also 4G records.
I have just published a performance benchmark paper which includes
Firebird in its tests.
http://devloop.org.uk/documentation/database-performance/
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Steve Shaughnessy published in his blog what he is doing for the new “enhanced” dbExpress technology, to be available in the next Delphi version. Looks very interesting. You can read it here.
[Editor Note] I would like to see CodeGear officially supporting Firebird in Delphi.
Did you ever thought about possibilities to improve your database performance? Sure, a Database System like Interbase or Firebird is able to speed up typical operations internally, but in a lot of cases, there are very easy but powerful improvements.
Here is one more example:
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Check out this blog post from Dmitry Kouzmenko about how to run FB on Vista and not loose performance.
