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[Normano 0]

Do you know what Firebird is?

[yordan 10]

as stated here : http://www.firebirdsql.org/

Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL-92 features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers excellent ...

Seems to be another RDBMS system. Have a look at their site, and tell us. They seem to be far les popular as mysql. Tell us if they are as expensive as Oracle.

[faulty.lee 0]

Another advantage of firebird over mysql is embedded capability. You can connect to the database file without having to run the database server. Good for small application which require some database features but not full fledge database server. Mysql do offer such capability, but only for C/C++. Firebird has the library for quite a handful of languages.

[Normano 0]

Thats good, now i know what it is, thanks for the help:D

[ethergeek 0]

Aside from being an RDBMS, firebird is what Firefox used to be called, before the firebird (DBMS) project started talking to the mozilla people about the confusion it would cause.As far as embedded DBs though, check out the apache derby project and the hsqldb project. Both offer a wide variety of APIs.

[.:Brian:. 0]

I haven't ever heard of firebird....Is this something that is new, or has it been around for a while now?

[ABSDaemon 0]

This used to be the Interbase 6.0 database server. They eventually opensourced it to the firebird project. I used Interbase before (Several years ago I worked for a company that deployed a lot of Cobalt servers and this was the DB of choice for that platform)I'm not sure about Firebird. I heard a lot of buzz about it a few years ago and frankly haven't heard much since. Especially since MySQL 4.0 and 5.0 released a bunch of features that MySQL needed to make it a true RDBMS. I'm even using PostgreSQL less these days. (But someone told me that they offer PostgreSQL here so I'm going to get a free account to test a CMS I'm building on a live enviroment to see if it will work without my custom tweaked Apache/Php installs at home).

[lazlo 0]

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I'm not sure about Firebird. I heard a lot of buzz about it a few years ago and frankly haven't heard much since. Especially since MySQL 4.0 and 5.0 released a bunch of features that MySQL needed to make it a true RDBMS. I'm even using PostgreSQL less these days. (But someone told me that they offer PostgreSQL here so I'm going to get a free account to test a CMS I'm building on a live enviroment to see if it will work without my custom tweaked Apache/Php installs at home).

 

I had a one-of-a-kind-program developed for me about 3 years ago. It used a Firebird Server from my understanding at the time.

At first I did not know what it was, all I had to learn was some scripting unique to the server/database.

I never got to learn the scripting at it's full potential, but the way it worked was brilliant as a concept for the work it was meant to do. Best I had ever seen.

It never crashed using XP Pro and it is unfortunate development could not have endured.

There were no help files written at the time for user end scripting. So I had to rely on the developer most of the time.

 

The server would work tirelessly filling real-time data into it's database. The scripts would run accordingly.

My scripts would "communicate" with the database and then "act". (Print etc etc etc)

Therefore the programmer would simply keep a check on things all else that means zilch to me ( I am not a programmer).

Then one day I had hardware issues on XP and replaced the HD.

The programmer had shut shop and I could not download a fresh install of the developed server, tailored to run my scripts.

 

Moral is, I only just joined this forum, relative to the process the Firebird used to do, but I have had to do it all over again using this crappy by comparison Excel VBA ( no comparison).

 

I did try to get a handle on the Firebird, it's free, but the developer tools are not free it seems, and all the programming jargon is not what I know.

I wish only there could one day be a Firebird community forum for absolute beginners.

Let me know if one exists or if it ever will.