Content not direct related to FB, but interesting reading.
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
Was experimenting with embedded Firebird today with nHibernate. Wanted to see if an embedded database could keep up with a highly proprietary flat file format for data lookups.
Read More on this blog
I have installed an application of ours that uses Firebird 1.5
Embedded on a tablet pc running Windows XP embedded.
So far, fingers crossed touch wood and all that, it works well. Read more
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
We recently came across a neat and free backup scheduler that works for Firebird database tables. [it’s about FIBS backup scheduler]
I [benomathew] was working on a setup program that installed an emergency server on one of the workstations when the database server is not available.. the program i created did a silent install of the firebird engine (by using the /SILENT command line parameter).. firebird has the following components
So are there any Firebird partisans out there who’d like to tell me what’s so great about Firebird? Thanks in advance, and I’m especially grateful for the flame-free nature of your expected contribution.
Here is where you can give an response
here is the article about the new 16 cores mips cpu , On cnet there is an picture with full server built around that cpu [it might work with firebird on linux mips ]
ps: anyone with an ultrasparc t1 (niagara) based system and linux loaded on it?
Here are some rants about oracle, linux and oss databases
Will Oracle ever befriend Linux and actually prove that something can be given in return? At present, Oracle competes with and destroys some of the business that MySQL, Firebird, and PostgreSQL have conquered with Linux and pure Open Source software.
