Where to next?

How to get help
Using the books by IBPhoenix Publications

How to get help

The community of willing helpers around Firebird goes a long way back, to many years before the source code for its ancestor, InterBase® 6, was made open source. Collectively, the Firebird community does have all the answers! It even includes some people who have been involved with it since it was a design on a drawing board in a bathroom in Boston.

Visit the official Firebird Project site at http://firebird.sourceforge.net and join the user support lists.
Visit the Firebird knowledge site at http://www.ibphoenix.com to look up a vast collection of information about developing with and using Firebird.
See the growing list of documentation that has been produced within the Firebird project itself at http://firebird.sourceforge.net/manual/.
Get the Using Firebird manual and its companion volume, the Firebird Reference Guide. Both books ship on the IBPhoenix CD as e-books in PDF format. They are fully cross-referenced.
Read the Firebird Reference Guide, chapter 10: Resources and References – for a collection of useful resources about Firebird, SQL and database application development.
Order the official Firebird Book at http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&s=1093098777:149734&page=ibp_firebird_book, for more than 1100 pages jam-packed with Firebird information.

Using the books by IBPhoenix Publications

Using Firebird and the Firebird Reference Guide have been designed for easy use and access during your development work. A button at the top right-hand corner of each “content” page will cause Acrobat Reader to switch back and forth between the two volumes. Each content page also has a navigation bar with buttons to take you directly to the index listings for the selected character. All index listings are hyperlinked to their sources.

For greater detail about setting up your server and your network, refer to the early chapters of Using Firebird. Chapter 7 is a troubleshooting reference. The ensuing chapters deal in turn with design, language and development issues and provided detailed instructions for using the command-line tools.