Tag: firebird
MySQL, Oracle, DB2, PgSQL and Firebird versus Leap Years and Division by Zero
Some Leap Years and Division by Zeoro example in different database systems
What is SchemaProber?
The main purpose of SchemaProber is to provide a lightweight representation of a database schema. It doesn’t do anything except relay information from the database. Here’s the class diagram for SchemaProber
please save ibwebadmin in debian/ubuntu
This package is neither part of unstable nor experimental. This probably means that the package has been removed (or has been renamed). Thus the information here is of little interest … the package is going to disappear unless someone takes it over and reintroduces it into unstable.
lazarus+macosx+firebird blog of the day
Here are some steps needed for developing on that platform
Vulnerability in Firebird database – heise report
Security service provider Core Security has announced the discovery of a vulnerability in the Firebird open source database. Attackers could exploit the vulnerability to inject arbitrary code onto the server.
Firebird Relational Database ‘protocol.cpp’ XDR Protocol Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Firebird is prone to an integer-overflow vulnerability because it fails to ensure that integer values aren’t overrun. Attackers may exploit this issue to overflow a buffer and to corrupt process memory.
Attackers may be able to execute arbitrary machine code in the context of an affected application. Failed exploit attempts will likely result in a denial-of-service condition.
JVCS 2.50 Beta 1 released – 1st branching support release!
The JVCS team is happy to announce JEDI VCS 2.50 Beta 1, which is the first beta version of the second JVCS release.
This beta version targets experienced JEDI VCS users which are interested in branching functionality.
64bit Firebird for MacOS 10.5 (Leopard)
Today I put the finishing touches to a native 64bit port of Firebird for MacOS 10.5 (Leopard).
This required the following changes to the Firebird 2.1 code base (B2_1_Release). For anybody else considering adding a new platform to Firebird then you may find this useful.
Firebird on Solaris 10 (sparc) – howto
I’ve downloaded the latest 2.0.3 Firebird Server for Solaris 10 SPARC,
installed it and had some minor troubles to make it run.