Here we begin the project to build a centralized, linked index of
Firebird/InterBase documentation to put what you need literally at
your fingertips.
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Firebird Documentation Project
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This Firebird subproject aims to provide you with high-quality
documentation for Firebird. If you are interested in our documentation
developments, visit the
Documentation Subproject pages in the Developer's corner.
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Firebird License Conditions
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Firebird Documentation IndexBasic Documentation | User Manuals | Release Notes | Quick Sheets | Papers | Reference Material | Documentation for Firebird Drivers | Past, Present and Future | Firebird Licenses | Manuals for Firebird Docwriters | InterBase 6.0 Manuals | Old but Possibly Useful
While we are working on full user's and reference guides, the current "standard set" of
Firebird manuals still consists of the:
| Oct 2009 |
The Firebird Commandline Utilities book has been split into separate manuals.
New: Gbak user manual (HTML|PDF),
Fbmgr user manual (HTML|PDF). |
| Sep 2009 |
Firebird 2.1.3 Release Notes
(HTML|PDF) |
| Aug 2009 |
Firebird 2.5 Beta 2 Release Notes
(HTML) |
Please notice: Many HTML manuals consist of several files.
If you right-click on a link to download such a manual, you'll only catch the first section.
| Basic Documentation | HTML | PDF / other |
| Firebird 2.0 and 2.1 Quick Start Guide | de en it | de en it |
| Firebird 1.5 Quick Start Guide | en es fr ja ru | en es fr ja ru |
| Firebird 1.0 Quick Start Guide | en | en |
| Using Firebird (work in progress) | en | en |
| Frequently Asked Questions | en | |
| Firebird Null Guide | en es fr it ru | en es fr it ru |
| Firebird Generator Guide | de en ru | de en ru |
| Setting up Firebird on Ubuntu Linux | en it | en it |
| MS SQL to Firebird Migration Guide | en ru | en ru |
| Coexistence of Firebird 1.5 and InterBase | en pt-br ru | en pt-br ru |
| Firebird's nbackup tool | de en fr nl ru | de en fr nl ru |
| Firebird's gsec User Management tool | en | en |
| Firebird's gbak Backup and Restore tool | en | en |
| Firebird's gfix Database Housekeeping tool | en | en |
| Firebird's gsplit Dumpfile Splitting tool | en | en |
| Firebird's Shell Script tools | en | en |
| Firebird's fbmgr Database Engine Manager tool | en | en |
| Firebird Commandline Utilities (English version obsolete!) | pt-br ru | pt-br ru |
| Using ZeBeDee with Firebird | | en |
| Embedded SQL Guide for RM/Cobol | en | en |
| Firebird 2.5 Beta 2 | en | |
| Firebird 2.1 Release Notes | en it | en it |
| Firebird 2 Migration & Installation Notes (v. 2.0.x and 2.1) | en | en |
| Firebird 2 Cumulative Bug Fixes (2.0.5 to 2.1.3) | en | en |
| Firebird 2.0.5 Release Notes | en | en |
| Firebird 1.5.6 Release Notes | en | en |
| Firebird 1.5.2 Release Notes | | de fr |
| Firebird 1.5 Release Notes | | cz es it pt pt-br |
| Firebird 1.0.3 Readme | | en:txt |
| Firebird 1.0.2 Readme | | en:txt |
| Firebird 1.0 Release Notes | | en ja pt |
| Get to know Firebird in 2 minutes | bg cz de en es fr hu it ja pl pt pt-br ru se tk | en |
| Firebird Facts | en pt | en |
| What's new in Firebird 1.5 | en | en |
| Upgrading from Firebird 1.0 to 1.5 | en | |
| Trouble Connecting to Firebird 1.5 on Linux? | en | |
| Firebird, DreamWeaver, PHP & Phakt | | en |
| Using Firebird with OpenOffice | | en |
| Tracking Down Crashes on Linux | en | |
| Firebird Enterprise White Paper | en fr | en fr |
| The Power of Firebird Events | | en |
| Convert Data from another DBMS to Firebird | en | |
| Firebird File and Metadata Security | de en pt-br ru | de en pt-br ru |
| Firebird Database Server on MacOSX | en | en |
| Setting up PHP and Firebird on Linux | en | en |
| User and Password Management | en | |
| Firebird 2.0 Enhancements | en | |
| Writing Firebird UDFs in Delphi | en | |
| To BLOB or Not To BLOB? | en | |
| Some Stored Procedures to Massage Dates | en | |
| Multi Version Concurrency Control | en | en |
| Firebird Embedded Stand-alone on Linux HOWTO | en | |
| Firebird RDBMS Win32 and OBDC under PuppyLinux HOWTO | en | |
| Firebird 2.1 Language Reference Update | en | en |
| Firebird 2.0 Language Reference Update | en | en |
| Firebird 1.5 Language Reference Update | en | en |
| Firebird Database Limits | en | |
| Firebird 2.1 Error Codes | | en |
| Firebird 2.0 Error Codes | | en |
| Firebird 1.5 Error Codes | | en |
| Firebird Date Literals | en | |
| Firebird 1.5 Character Sets & Collations | en | |
| Locale/Collation Charts (A. Barkov, MySQL) | en | |
| Firebird SQL Conformance | en | |
| ISO 9075 SQL Standard Keywords/Reserved Words | en | |
| Documentation for Firebird Drivers | | |
| Jaybird Type 4 JDBC Driver Manual | | en |
| Jaybird Wiki | en | |
| Firebird .NET Provider API | en | |
| Firebird .NET Provider On-line Tutorial | en | |
| Firebird Python Driver Docs (KInterbasDB 3.3.0) | en | |
| IBPP C++ Wrappers for Firebird (Reference Doc) | en | |
| Firebird Roadmap for 2009 | en | |
| Firebird Roadmap for 2008 | en | |
| Firebird Roadmap for 2007 | en | |
| History of InterBase and Firebird | en | |
| InterBase Public License | en | |
| Initial Developer's Public License | en | |
| Public Documentation License | en fr | en |
| Manuals for Firebird Docwriters | | |
| Migration Guide (IB 5.x and below to IB 6.0) | | en:zip |
| API Guide | | en:zip |
| Data Definition Guide | | en:zip |
| Developers Guide | | en:zip |
| Embedded SQL Guide | | en:zip |
| Language Reference | | en:zip |
| Operations Guide | | en:zip |
| Full Set, cross-indexed | | en:zip |
| SQL Reference (not included in full set) | en | |
| Migrating from InterBase 6.01 to Firebird 1.5 and 2.0 (third-party HOWTO) | en | |
| Writing UDFs for InterBase (2000) | en | |
| InterBase Connectivity for Delphi/C++Builder (2000) | en | |
| Some Solutions to Old Problems | en | |
| InterBase: What Sets It Apart? | en | |
| Ten Things To Make Interbase Scream (1998) | | en |
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