New MindTheBird contest: FB 2.5 features documentation contest
Write articles/documentation about any of the new Firebird 2.5 features and you can win a prize of USD 500 (1st place) or USD 200 (honourable mention prizes).
Rules:
Article format should be Word (doc/docx), Open Office or RTF.
It must contain minimum of 2.000 words.
It must be clear and easy to [...]
Would you like to know how to avoid error messages like ‘arithmetic exception, numeric overflow, or string truncation’? in Firebird DBMS?
Please read related article here:
Three Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to the New IBProvider
Some authors submitted a grayscale image as the B/W version of the artwork. If you are one of them, please send a corrected version (B/W = black and white, only two colors, no grayscale) until tomorrow (15/March – 23:59) or the artwork (together with its full color pair) will be excluded from the contest.
Database views allow you to easily reduce the complexity of the end user experience and limit their ability to access data contained in database tables by limiting the data presented to the end user. Essentially, a view uses the results of a database query to dynamically populate the contents of an artificial database table.
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Using Views to Control Database AccessDatabase Views originally appeared on About.com Databases on Sunday, March 14th, 2010 at 06:00:03.
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The PostgreSQL Project today released minor versions updating all active branches of the PostgreSQL object-relational database system, including versions 8.4.3, 8.3.10, 8.2.16, 8.1.20, 8.0.24, and 7.4.28.
If you plan to participate in our FB 10th anniversary logo contest, you need to hurry up, since Monday (15/March) is the last day we will be accepting submissions. Artworks received after 23:59 (GMT) will not enter in the contest.
The voting to elect the best artwork will be done in two steps. In the first [...]
A beta version of 2.2 release is available for download.
You are welcome to test it and send your feedback.
Federal authorities have charged a Colorado man with trying to corrupt Transportation Security Administration databases containing information tied to the war on terror and other law enforcement activities.
- A former Transportation Security Administration
employee has been charged with trying to corrupt TSA databases.
Douglas James Duchak, 46, of
Colorado Springs, Colo.,was indicted by a federal grand jury in
Denverthis
week on two counts of charges of attempting to intentionally damage a
p...
There will be an one day Firebird Conference in Ukraine (April 23, 2010), with the presence of many of the Core Team members, like Dmitry Yemanov, Alex Peshkov and Vlad Khorsun.
Check a translated version with info about the conference here.
Fbclone 2.0 is released on google code , You can track some of the changes on Pierre’s blog also in the svn changelog
