Firebird 2.5 article as cover story in the current Entwickler Magazin 1.2010 issue
Firebird 2.5 new features in the paper edition of Entwickler Magazine (German/babelfish speakers only)
Firebird 2.5 new features in the paper edition of Entwickler Magazine (German/babelfish speakers only)
Firebird 2.5 new features in portuguese
Issues 68 and 69 of ActiveDelphi
Via Sinatica’s tweet
Damyan Ivanov requested from us to test the new Firebird 2.5 (almost rc1) packages on Debian based distros (Ubuntu)
I have updated the HowTo build the packages from Git repository.
There are still known big issues but you can start testing and give feedback on Firebird Debian list
For the moment Firebird won the second place but we can still vote š and change the #mysql virtual monopoly on Lamp
http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/what-is-your-favorite-open-source-database/
Does anyone knows a BLR decoder, or the doc“s that i need to build one?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1839956/firebird-blr-decoder
There is no such tool yet but you can get the documentation from here Ā (Save As)
There are usually only two reasons why a database can be corrupted in Firebird: 1) You copied the fdb-file while the Server was accessing it and 2) You don’t have forced writes enabled and the server shut down unexpectedly (e.g. power-outage)
Database recovery is done in four steps. Here’s how you do it:
Dudley – Sounds like DDL (data definition language) and is the pre (interbase) 4.0 data definition utility GDEF. It’s actually named after Dudley Doright, a character from Rocky and Bullwinkle. GDEF accepts a data definition language based on GDML.
Full thread on Firebird-devel list
Another definition on original source code description (interbase 6.0)
DDL utility. Interpreted commands in the old data definition language (declare relation, declare field – square brackets where you want to put parentheses). Generates BLR for views and triggers, GDML (non-SQL relational language) for metadata updates.
Not much from me, but a good one, showing 3 very important people for
Firebird and some interesting slides
http://www.destructor.de/firebird/conf2009/index.htm
RegardsĀ Stefan