Firebird Novice’s Guide

Introduction for New Firebird Users

The latest version of Firebird for most platforms is 1.5, released in February 2004. A point release, v.1.5.1, was released in July 2004 and another, v.1.5.2 was due in November. Binaries are available as installer kits for all platforms that support packaged installations. Because Firebird is constantly under development, it is strongly recommended that you keep up-to-date with the stable releases and point releases.

	Fact Sheets and White Papers about Firebird
Firebird 2-Minute Guide	A quick look at Firebird’s features and capabilities, assembled by Carlos Cantu. Non-English versions available: Czech | Português (BR) | Polish | German | Turkish | Português
Firebird Factsheet	An overview of the features of Firebird, with links to some community areas that it’s good to know about.
More facts!	An overview of the features introduced with the release of Firebird v.1.5.
	Start here! Download this essential document to get you through your first installation and some of the problems you might encounter when testing your installation and connecting to a Firebird database for the first time. READ IT FIRST! Right-click on the image to download the PDF file
	Click the button to sign up to the liveliest support list on the Web! What is in the kits? Firebird is a complete client/server relational database management system. The kits contain the binaries for the server, the client library and a number of command line utilities. Other pieces that both new and experienced users need include Release Notes Firebird’s release notes contain a lot of information about the release, including the user documentation for Firebird-specific features. If these are not in the root directory of your installed Firebird, look in the /doc directory beneath the root. You will find the main release notes along with the latest point release notes. You need BOTH of these PDF files and a reader program, typically Adobe Acrobat Reader. The earlier Firebird v.1.0 release notes contain some SQL language and reference material that is not documented anywhere else. You can download the most recent Firebird 1.0 notes from the Firebird 1 page at www.ibphoenix.com. README notes These are generally fairly brief user notes for using some of the utilities. The titles are usually self-explanatory. After the release notes, these are your next line of inquiry if you are stuck on details like what scripts do or how to do custom client installs.
	Which kit to download It would be hard to find a more confusing download page than the one automatically maintained for us by Sourceforge, http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/firebird/. It is comprehensive but the arrangement is difficult to follow unless you know exactly what you are looking for. The links HERE will take you directly to the download for the kit you want, without having to search for it.
	To begin with, you should avoid “release candidate” (RC) and special (“PDB”) builds, which are released quite frequently for field testing and debugging. When upgrading to a new major release version, e.g. v.1.0.x to v.1.5.x, you need to do a complete uninstall of the older version first. More details here.
	Click the image to search an eclectic collection of novice questions that recur often in the support lists.

Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL standard features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers. It has been used in production systems, under a variety of names since 1981.

Firebird is a commercially independent project of C and C++ programmers, technical advisors and supporters developing and enhancing a multi-platform relational database management system based on the source code released by Inprise Corp (now known as Borland Software Corp) on 25 July, 2000 under the InterBase Public License v.1.0.

Firebird is completely free of any registration, licensing or deployment fees. It may be deployed freely for use with any third-party software, whether commercial or not.

New code modules added to Firebird are licensed under the Initial Developer’s Public License. (IDPL). The original modules released by Inprise are licensed under the InterBase Public License v.1.0. Both licences are modified versions of the Mozilla Public License v.1.1.

Flat Nuke

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Flatnuke è un CMS (Content Management System) che non fa uso di DBMS, appoggiandosi esclusivamente a file di testo (da qui il nome).

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Liber Liber, nota per il progetto di biblioteca telematica accessibile gratuitamente (progetto Manuzio) e per l’archivio musicale (LiberMusica), è una o.n.l.u.s. (organizzazione non lucrativa di utilità sociale) che ha come obiettivo la promozione di ogni espressione artistica e intellettuale. In particolare, Liber Liber si propone di favorire l’utilizzazione consapevole delle tecnologie informatiche in campo umanistico e di avvicinare la cultura umanistica e quella scientifica.

Liber Liber è stata ufficialmente costituita con atto notarile il 28 novembre 1994, pur operando fin dal 1993. Il suo statuto è on-line.

Wikipedia

Wikipedia italia, la versione italiana di Wikipedia, l’enciclopedia libera nella quale i lettori sono anche gli autori.Chiunque può collaborare a Wikipedia, creando una nuova voce o migliorando i contenuti di quelle già esistenti; ovviamente, perché il progetto funzioni, c’è bisogno di quanta più collaborazione possibile, compresa la tua; chiunque voglia contribuire al progetto, nel pieno rispetto delle sue regole e, soprattutto, utilizzando il buon senso, è sempre benaccetto.

WinPenPack

 Dal sito ufficiale WinPenPack (http://www.winpenpack.com/) :
WinPenPack è una collezione di software portatile.
Rappresenta un nuovo modo di utilizzare il software sul computer: è pensato ed ottimizzato per le Pen Drive USB ma può essere utilizzato anche da Hard Disk.
In base alla grandezza della propria Drive Pen USB è possibile scegliere fra WinPenPack FLASH 128, WinPenPack FLASH 256 e WinPenPack FLASH 512, contenenti i migliori software open source e freeware reperibili sul Web, resi portatili e suddivisi tra le categorie Grafica, Multimedia, Internet, Ufficio, Sistema, Sicurezza, Sviluppo web, Discipline scolastiche e Utility. Oltre alle tre edizioni ‘Standard’, fanno parte della collezione anche WinPenPack FLASH SCHOOL, contenente software didattico e WinPenPack FLASH EXPERT, rivolto ad un’utenza avanzata.
Inoltre è possibile creare da sè il proprio winPenPack personalizzato attraverso una procedura guidata che consente di inserire solo i software desiderati: WinPenPack PERSONAL.

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