Why I’m Not a Fan of “Utility” Classes
Blog of the day about Design Paterns , Firebird Anti- Paterns
Technical articles, How-tos, guides, etc.
Blog of the day about Design Paterns , Firebird Anti- Paterns
Some time ago I wrote about function based indexes, showing a PostgreSQL based case, right now I’ll show a Firebird based example, due to the fact that Firebird 2.0 supports Expression Indexes, which are my good old function based indexes.
Read More on pabloj’s blog
In general you just need to have Flamerobin connect to Embedded Firebird through local protocol, my setup with Firebird 1.5.3 is like this
I’ve been promising the Firebird Tutorial for .NET for a long time.
Now there is a first “beta” version: http://www.firebirdtutorial.net/. I decided to start with the .NET 2.0 topics – a lot of interesting things happen around FirebirdClient 2.0 and there is not much documentation about it (unless you are a fan of mailing list browsing).
The connection string to a database should never be hard coded in your application. There is (almost) always a difference between the development and production database server. Besides that IT management should have an easy way to change the configuration.
Read more on the weblog of Peter van Ooijen
This paper is about Firebird and ASP pages, the most interesting thing is that it shows how to use transactions within ASP pages, which is not so common. [Ed: pabloj is my hero, we need more articles like this one ]
Here’s a list of the Linux and Windows database drivers for ruby and links for downloading them. All from Firebird and MySQL to Oracle. The tutorial also shows how to install the DBI abstraction layer for Ruby to get database connectivity and use it to create write once use everywhere Ruby code.
via dzone.com
This is meant to be a quickstarter in using OpenOffice 2.0.3 and Firebird on Windows.
The “Get to know FB in 2 minutes” paper was translated to Bulgarian by Todor Kichukov. Now the paper is available in 12 languages!
This is a great presentation, Jim throws in a lot of database history and insight into working with MySQL