Firebird News

Here is my patch file so far for the firebird provider.[Ed:For gnome db]

It only run select statements. Your feedback and guidance will be appreciated.

There is still quite a bit missing, but at least I can now select data from a firebird database . Please note that it does not do the input,parameters for statements…..mainly cause I never use it

If there is some interest I’ll work some more on it

Here is the download page and the full changelog

Tutorial is about logging into the Firebird database using NLog 2.0

Article is in Russian Language but you can try to read the google translation

ps: Let’s hop you will not spend 5 hours and yogurt to fight with this again 😉

The idea of storing a hierarchical data in a relational database is very simple, but effective work with such a data requires some knowledge of server-side programming using procedural SQL (PSQL). So the hierarchical data structures are a good chance to get acquainted with PSQL. For demonstration purposes I created a simple database with single table TCLASS containing Delphi class hierarchy
The rest of the article is here

Pavel Cisar wrote on firebird python list :
Those who attended my “Python drivers” session at conference in
Luxembourg already know that last two months I have worked on another
Python driver for Firebird (codename fdb). It was just an experiment how
far I could go in short time with another approach to implementation,
not real attempt to replace both existing drivers (KInterbasDB and
firebirdsql). However, it went so well, that we have a real chance to
get out a truly universal pure Python driver for Firebird next year.
Here are details…