Events were what clinched Ib/Firebird for me.
The ability to receive changes from any client and then have other connected
users instantly see the data (yeilding an "active database") is brilliant.
IBO made it even easier with it's DML caching facility.

The mechanisms of combining triggers and events is so elegant, though it
would hardly fill a hard core programming article. I use these for
watchdogs, replication, live client data.

Perhaps an article starting with an outline of the concepts, then a few
case studies?

If it was possible to pass a parameter in the event (eg the pk of table...it
would be perfect :) )

Regards

----- Original Message -----
From: "Martijn Tonies" <m.tonies@...>
To: <Firebird-general@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 4:11 PM
Subject: **SPAM** Re: [Firebird-general] Article


>
> > s> I'd hate to see this excellent publicity opportunity wasted. I'm sure
> I'm not
> > s> the most qualified of the members of this list to do a technical
> article on
> > s> using Firebird, but I'd consider it if nobody else wants to. I don't
> have much
> > s> experience with events, but I've done some custom UDFs. The ability
to
> add user
> > s> defined functions is pretty unique to Interbase/Firebird, isn't it?
> >
> > Mmm... I think it's pretty common, instead. At least I have seen it done
> in
> > Oracle and MS SQL Server. I haven't seen a callback implementation as
> > slick as Firebird events elsewhere, though. But I don't have anything
> > very interesting to say about events either.
>
> As far as I know, events are pretty unique.
>
> With regards,
>
> Martijn Tonies
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