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Firebird 1.0 Quick Start Guide

IBPhoenix Editors

8 April 2005 - Document version 2.1.2


Table of Contents

About this guide
What is in the kit?
Classic or Superserver?
Default disk locations
Installing Firebird
Testing your installation
Other things you need
Connecting to the sample database
Creating a database using isql
Performing a client-only install
Firebird SQL
Backup
How to corrupt a database
Where to next?
The Firebird Project
A. Document History
B. License notice
Alphabetical index

About this guide

This guide is an introduction for the complete newcomer to a few essentials for getting off to a quick start with a Firebird binary kit. For the fine details of configuring and running your server and tuning your installation, please refer to Chapters 4-6 of the Using Firebird manual, distributed on the IBPhoenix CD.

The Firebird Quick Start Guide started life as Chapter 1 of the Using Firebird manual, sold on CD by IBPhoenix. Later it was published separately on the Internet. In June 2004, IBPhoenix donated the guide to the Firebird Project.

Important

Before you read on, verify that your Firebird version matches this guide. This guide covers versions 1.0, 1.0.2 and 1. 0.3. If you run Firebird 1.5 or higher, get the appropriate version of the Quick Start Guide at http://www.firebirdsql.org/manual/ (HTML) or http://www.firebirdsql.org/pdfmanual/ (PDF).

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