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://www.firebirdsql.org and join the user support lists, in particular firebird-support. Look at http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/mailing-lists/ for instructions.
Use the Firebird documentation index at http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/documentation/.
Visit the Firebird knowledge site at http://www.ibphoenix.com to look up a vast collection of information about developing with and using Firebird. IBPhoenix also sells a Developer CD with the Firebird binaries and lots of documentation.
Order the official Firebird Book at http://www.ibphoenix.com/products/books/firebird_book, for more than 1100 pages jam-packed with Firebird information. [Notice: Currently out of print; Second Edition in the making. First Edition still available through e.g. eBay, Amazon.]
As a last resort – since our documentation is still incomplete – you can consult the InterBase 6.0 beta manuals (the files whose names start with 60 at http://www.ibphoenix.com/downloads/) in combination with the Firebird 1.5 and 2.x Release Notes.