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Chapter 1. About this guide. The Firebird 5 Quick Start Guide is an introduction for the complete newcomer to a few essentials for getting off to a quick start with a Firebird binary kit. The guide first saw the light as Chapter 1 of the Using Firebird manual, sold on CD by IBPhoenix.
All Reference Manuals. Online Documentation. Downloadable Version. Current Versions. Firebird 5 Quick Start Guide (English) PDF available. Firebird 5.0 Language Reference - multi-page (English) PDF available. Firebird 4.0 Language Reference - multi-page (English)
The Firebird Quick Start Guide is an introduction for the complete newcomer to a few essentials for getting off to a quick start with a Firebird binary kit.
1.5: Partially implemented Services Manager, sup-porting tasks like backup/restore, database shutdown etc. over the network. Other service tasks have to be performed locally using the client tools (small sepa-rate executables) that come with Firebird. 1.5.1 and up: full Services Manager. Full Services Manager allows you to perform manage-
Firebird RDBMS. The Firebird Project supplies users, developers, and administrators with various kinds of documentation, from Quick Start guides to expert-level articles devoted to various aspects of Firebird. The most important documents every Firebird developer need to have handy:
Firebird is a free, open-source database management system, but “free” does not mean that everything is per-mitted. The use of Firebird is governed by two licenses: the IPL (InterBase Public License) and the IDPL (Initial Developer's Public License). The first one covers the parts of the source code that were inherited from InterBase;
If you run Firebird 1.0, 1.0.2 or 1.0.3, get the appropriate version of the Quick Start Guide at http://www.firebirdsql.org/manual/ (HTML) or http://www.firebirdsql.org/pdfmanual/ (PDF).
