Know your server
Article in Sinática blog talks about architectural differences between SQL Server and Firebird.
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Here is the tutorial with screenshots in French , but from images you can follow the lazarus wizzards and it should be ok in any language
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Firebird is faster than filesystem for blob storage!
To blob or not to blob… good question!
I guess if you develop data intensive applications dealing with large files at some point, you’ve thought about it at least once: should I put my data files inside the database or should I write them directly to disk?
Ok, so here’s my point:
storing files in Firebird is faster than writing the same files on the filesystem!
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...DDEX Provider v2.0.3 for Visual Studio
Hello,
the DDEX Provider v2.0.3 for Visual Studio has been released. This release contains all new registry files as well as reworked readme file for installation and one bug fix. Download it from http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=files&id=netprovider.
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Open-source databases have become quite prominent over the last decade, in large installations as well as small ones. MySQL and PostgreSQL are the best-known open-source databases, but SQLite, Firebird, and CouchDB are also popular in some corners, and offer compelling features of their own. In some cases, users aren’t even aware that they have installed a database: For example, the Firefox Web browser comes with an installation of SQLite, which it uses to manage preferences and passwords.
Read full article here.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Windows Authentication in FB 2.1
Mario Cornejo talks about the Windows Authentication feature introduced in Firebird 2.1 in his blog. With this feature, you can login to your database using a Windows user.
(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...Provider for Entity Framework for Firebird is back and ready for SP1 final
The final version of SP1 for VS2008 and .NET 3.5 is out for a while. And you may noticed, that there were some [more …]
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Lazarus 0.9.26 release preparation
The list of open issues for Lazarus 0.9.26 is getting smaller by the day. Most are fixed. Some are re-targeted to 0.9.28, if we estimate it takes too long fix them now. Some are re-targeted to 1.0.0, if closer inspection turns out the bug is not a regression.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Free Pascal 2.2.2 released
The Free Pascal team is pleased to announce that version 2.2.2 is
released and available for download for all major platforms
A list of major changes is available Here.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...ZEOSLib 6.6.3 – stable is out now
We are proud to officially announce the release of the ZEOS DBO Library 6.6.3 – stable
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