Local backup of your database
We recently came across a neat and free backup scheduler that works for Firebird database tables. [it’s about FIBS backup scheduler]
Content not direct related to FB, but interesting reading.
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.
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.
SAP may have stumbled onto an Oracle killer: in-memory technology that could, in theory, quash the need for a relational database in some cases.
Read full article here.
Not direct related to Firebird, but as a great number of Firebird users are also Delphi users, this is interesting news…
DevCo will release, in a few weeks, Turbo versions of its products, as free and low priced versions! Check more info in the following links:
www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2000205,00.asp
www.turboexplorer.com
Press release at www.turboexplorer.com/TurbosPressRelease.htm