Firebird related news
FLAPS is FLAP with Ssl (that is why S is at the end of word)
FWAP is an acronym for the combination Microsoft Windows, Apache, Firebird and one or more of Perl, PHP and Python. It is modelled after the more well-known FLAP, referring to the all-open source/free software approach which uses Linux instead of Windows.
FWIP is the WIMP equivalent (alias) with firebird used instead of mysql
traffic is high , you can watch the graphs on alexa
Other sites that is worth watching for their visits graphs are firebirdsql.org and ibphoenix.com
Shutdown mode prevents everyone other than SYSDBA and the owner from
connecting.
This allows you to safely run metadata scripts etc and be sure no-one
else is connected while this happens.
This statement is base on my experience, so maybe it’s not true for you. Firebird version that I know for the first time is 1.0 version, since then I fall in love with Firebird (FB).
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In the latest Edition of IBExpert, we added some new modules, on is
a database script with a simple sales database, that creates its test
data from a stored procedure.
now i had some time to test it against fb153, fb2b2 (and ib751)
What does it do: first it creates a almost empty database with just
some entries in helptables. after the database is created, you have to
start one procedure and wait for the time it takes.
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EMS Software Development company is pleased to announce new version of Data Comparer 2005 – the powerful utility for data comparison and synchronization for Firebird and InterBase databases. |
The 2006 SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards.… time to vote for your favourite database.
Also, open source database provider MySQL on Monday announced it has joined Eclipse as an Add-in Provider member. MySQL plans to contribute to the Eclipse Data Tools Platform project and collaborate with Zend Technologies and others on the proposed Eclipse PHP IDE project.
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For those of you data hounds out there that use open source databases.
May I suggest the excellent Firebird, coupled with IBexpert, as opposed to mySQL.
I have found it a heck of a lot easier to design and implement stored procedures. It is open source and rock solid.
That is J. J. Walter’s opinion about firebird , expressed in his blog.
