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Support Forums => General Board => Topic started by: Martin Francom on June 24, 2013, 02:51:45 PM

Title: Firebird Database
Post by: Martin Francom on June 24, 2013, 02:51:45 PM
Has anyone used FireBird Database ? 
   http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals/

I need to be able to access some data from a Firebird Database and wonder if anyone here has used PowerBasic to work with this database.  I there a pb  dll that can used with it?   
Title: Re: Firebird Database
Post by: Paul Squires on June 24, 2013, 11:24:32 PM
Did you look at this:
http://www.jose.it-berater.org/smfforum/index.php?topic=2896.msg8849#msg8849

Title: Re: Firebird Database
Post by: James Klutho on July 01, 2013, 06:01:15 PM
I looked at it briefly using Jose's headers.  The C API is unfriendly low level.  You have allocate your own storage for a SELECT query etc.  I hear the ODBC drivers are so-so and there seems to be little interest of the core developers to remedy this.  There only apprears to be a very weak users group.  I would look elsewhere.