Category: Technical Articles
Technical articles, How-tos, guides, etc.
ZeosLib – New bug tracker and SVN snapshot downloads
We‘re very happy to see you’re intensively testing version 6.6.
To make testing and bug reporting easier we decided to change a few things.
[ED: There are good guides for using Zeos components with Firebird+Delphi and Lazarus too]
Vuln: Firebird Remote Pre-Authentication Database Name Buffer Overrun Vulnerability
Old vulnerability surfaced up from the deep . If you have an old Firebird 1.5.x please upgrade to latest version
ps: seems that securityfocus is updating their own vuln database so this is why it surfaced up again (the bug was squashed long long time ago)
MDO – an alternative set of components for Delphi/Firebird
Edson Lidorio wrote an small intro to MDO components (original version is in portuguese)
Moving firebird from windows to linux
In this guide Juan Carbajal is showing us how to move firebird databases from windows to linux , guide is written in spanish again
howto connect openoffice.org 2.x to firebird – guide in spanish
FB2.0 New Interesting Feature
Cipto KH wrote in his blog:Today, I just know after reading my email from firebird-support that show the new feature of FB2.0
Sqlrelay – Getting Started Guide With Interbase/Firebird
SQL Relay is a persistent database connection pooling, proxying and load balancing system for Unix and Linux. Here is the Getting Started Guide With Firebird
ibpp changes towards version 3.0
Work is in progress toward a ibpp 3.0 codebase which will officially be tweaked for and supporting Firebird 2.0, while bringing new extensions too. You may peek at some very preliminary (and very subject to significant changes) information about the version 3.0.
Turbo Delphi Interbase/Firebird Tutorial -by Felix John COLIBRI
abstract of the tutorial : developing database applications, using Turbo Delphi .Net and Interbase [ED: main ideas can be applied to firebird instead of interbase server – just use the FirebirdClient .Article does have very nice graphics with general architecture and that is why i linked to it]