Creating an auto incrementing column in Firebird
or in any database that supports triggers and generators (aka sequences)
The answer is well known however the question comes out quite often, be it in an Oracle, Firebird or PostgreSQL forum
Category: Technical Articles
Technical articles, How-tos, guides, etc.
Firebird Embedded and web sites
Can I (Dean Harding)make a simple suggestion:
Do not use Firebird in Embedded mode in a website
phpBB 3..is it worth the wait?
article by By Justin Silverton
Today, I decided to install it on one of my development servers to find out if it really is worth the wait.
HowTo install Firebird in Slackware Linux
Firebird Japanese documentation translation preparation
An guide on how to prepare for building firebird documentation intended for Japanese translation
[ED: there are very good posts about firebird in his blog , he was present at FDD and Firebird conference]
SQuirreL SQL Client + Firebird tutorial in japanese
Firebird tutorial using SQuirrel . There is also part 1 where firebird is installed
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Running Firebird on Windows Vista
Surfing some Delphi blogs, I found this post about what is needed to do to be able to run InterBase on Windows Vista. In a recent talk with Dmitry Yemanov, he told me that Firebird runs OK on Windows Vista, but to get the local protocol working, you need to do a small change in firebird.conf “IpcName” parameter, changing the default value to Global\FIREBIRD. You can find more information about this reading the firebird.conf file.
Embedded Firebird Db on Vista ?
Is anyone using an embedded firebird database on Windows Vista?
[ED: new topic on discuss.joelonsoftware.com]
Firebird 1.5.1 Mac OSX Panther to Tiger upgrade crash
The old Firebird-CS-1.5.1.pkg isn’t compatible with macosx Tiger, please
download the latest package from SF (1.5.3). That should work.