Firebird News

Saturday, March 29, 2008

the most stupid standard i have ever seen

The standard says that a BOOLEAN may be one of the following literals:
  • TRUE
  • FALSE
  • UNKNOWN or NULL (unless prohibited by a NOT NULL constraint)
the boolean values in any sane boleean system are True or false , noooh sql should have other values so you should check them for the not NULL values , more work for nothing

http://troels.arvin.dk/db/rdbms/#data_types-boolean


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Monday, March 24, 2008

Firebird hosting

Today i saw this nice firebird hosting company and i want to share it (it's an very good idea to follow and to create an Firebird+LAP hosting company)

There are many Linux hosting companies, many LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) environments. But we offer MORE! We offer the Firebird SQL database, Perl and Python scriping languages, FTP and direct shell access, and now Mono, a free implementation of Microsoft's .NET framework! Now you can put put your sites together with VB.NET and C#, but still run on the most popular web server platform.

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Friday, March 21, 2008

building firebird 2.1.x super from source on ubuntu

$sudo apt-get install automake libtool libreadline5-dev make btyacc bison gawk g++



$wget http://garr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/firebird/Firebird-2.1.0.17755-ReleaseCandidate2.tar.bz2

$tar -jxvf Firebird-2.1.0.17755-ReleaseCandidate2.tar.bz2

$cd Firebird-2.1.0.17755-ReleaseCandidate2

$./configure --enable-super-server --prefix=/opt/firebird2.1

$make

$sudo make install

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Sunday, March 02, 2008

Choice between MySQL and Firebird?

Which one of the two would you choose and why?

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