Firebird is a relational database that offers ANSI SQL-92 and SQL-2003 features. It runs on Linux and various Unix platforms, as well as on Windows. The project was first started at Borland, as a fork from their open source database project InterBase, that later closed its source. Firebird is a competitor to MySQL and PostgreSQL as an open source database server solution, but is generally less well known than its two competitors. One thing is is noted for however is excellent internationaliza
Whether you want to learn how to efficiently import data into Firebird, or you wonder if it is worth upgrading to Delphi 2010 for “routine” tasks, this article will give you some food for thought.
In particular, this article explores the use of...
Adriano (Firebird Core Team member) published a document (sorry, only in Portuguese) describing how he developed the integration between Java and Firebird, allowing people to write procedures and triggers in Java.
The Firebird project team announces that the Firebird V2.5.0 release candidate 1 is now available for all the supported main platforms (Win32, Win 64, Linux i86 and x86-64 and MacOS-X/Darwin i86 and x86-64). Please download, test and report any problem...
