Content not direct related to FB, but interesting reading.
About a month ago there was a question in Firebird (CZ) group how to find whether the user is able to use particular role or to get all roles for user.
As you probably know, a lot of stuff (almost everything) is in system catalog (system tables). The only problem is to figure out what’s the right set of parameters to use. To get all roles with users able to use it, you can use …
I’m pleased to announce availability of the first test version of
FB/Java plugin.
FB/Java is a plugin for FB external engines feature, to be presented in
v3.0, that allows execution of Java code at the server side. The plugin
allows classes/resources in the file system or stored in the database.
File system classes/resources are global and the code run with all
permissions. Database classes/resources are per-database and code runs
accordingly with per-engine configured security policy.
Also it seems that is quite fast from Adriano’s tweets
Philippe Makowski created a prerelase repositories for OpenSuse and SLE
Choose the repository you need and setup Firebird 2.1.3RC1, Flamerobin and the Python driver
Crunchyfrog an gtk sql client/Rdbms frontend for gnome and ubuntu
http://ur1.ca/6nys http://ur1.ca/6nyt seems that Firebird is supported and seems to be written in python
If anyone from Firebird community want’s to attend or do some presentations Call for Papers – deadline for submitting talk proposals is July, 19th!
The OpenSQLCamp 2009, European Edition will take part in parallel to the Free and Open Source Conference 2009 (FrOSCon) on Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd August in St. Augustin, Germany. St. Augustin is located close to Bonn and Cologne.
Firebird is known to be slow when used with Internet connections. Firebird 2.1 already brought to us an improved communication protocol, but we need an even faster protocol. If you consider this an important feature, please vote for it to raise its priority.
Firebird V2.1.3 Release Candidate 1 is available for testing.
This edition contains firebird related news from week 7-14 June
Nigel Weeks wrote on his blog
A little project I’ve been quietly working on for a few years. This web-deployed accounting system is powered by FreeBSD, Apache, PHP, and the Firebird Database.
It runs brilliantly on Windows and Linux as well.
