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Firebird Documentation

Firebird Getting Started Documentation

The Using Firebird and the Firebird Reference Manual, are available on the IBPhoenix Developer CD. The Using Firebird Manual has been donated to the Firebird Project and is currently being updated online.

• Quick Start Guide for Firebird V1.0x (html) (English)
• Quick Start Guide for Firebird V1.0x (pdf) (English)
• Quick Start Guide For Firebird V1.0x (html) (French)

• Quick Start Guide for Firebird V1.5 (html) (English)
• Quick Start Guide for Firebird V1.5 (pdf) (English)
• Quick Start Guide for Firebird V1.5 (html) (Spanish)
• Quick Start Guide for Firebird V1.5 (pdf) (Spanish)
• Quick Start Guide for Firebird V1.5 (html) (French)
• Quick Start Guide for Firebird V1.5 (pdf) (French)
• Quick Start Guide for Firebird V1.5 (html) (Japanese)
• Quick Start Guide for Firebird V1.5 (pdf) (Japanese)
• Quick Start Guide for Firebird V1.5 (html) (Russian)
• Quick Start Guide for Firebird V1.5 (pdf) (Russian)

• Quick Start Guide for Firebird V2.0 (html) (English)
• Quick Start Guide for Firebird V2.0 (pdf) (English)
• Quick Start Guide for Firebird V2.0 (html) (German)
• Quick Start Guide for Firebird V2.0 (pdf) (German)

Reference

• Firebird 1.5 Language Reference Update (pdf) (English)
• Firebird 1.5 Language Reference Update (html) (English)
• Firebird 1.5 Error Codes (pdf) (English)
• Firebird 1.5 Character Sets and Collations (html) (English)
• Firebird SQL Conformance (html) (English)

Null Guide

• Firebird Null Guide (html) (English)
• Firebird Null Guide (pdf) (English)
• Firebird Null Guide (html) (Spanish)
• Firebird Null Guide (pdf) (Spanish)
• Firebird Null Guide (html) (French)
• Firebird Null Guide (pdf) (French)
• Firebird Null Guide (html) (Italian)
• Firebird Null Guide (pdf) (Italian)
• Firebird Null Guide (html) (Russian)
• Firebird Null Guide (pdf) (Russian)

Migration Guides

• MS-SQL to Firebird Migration Guide (html) (English)
• MS-SQL to Firebird Migration Guide (pdf) (English)
• MS-SQL to Firebird Migration Guide (html) (Russian)
• MS-SQL to Firebird Migration Guide (pdf) (Russian)

Firebird Commandline Utilities (work in progress)

• Commandline Utilities (html) (English)
• Commandline Utilities (pdf) (English)
• Commandline Utilities (html) (Portuguese)
• Commandline Utilities (pdf) (Portuguese)
• Commandline Utilities (html) (Russian)
• Commandline Utilities (pdf) (Russian)

InterBase 6.0 Beta Documentation

• InterBase 6.0 API Guide (pdf) (zip) (1.69mb)
• InterBase 6.0 Data Definition Guide (pdf) (zip) (1.20mb)
• InterBase 6.0 Developers Guide (pdf) (zip) (1.46mb)
• InterBase 6.0 Embedded SQL Guide (pdf) (zip) (1.36mb)
• InterBase 6.0 Operations Guide (pdf) (zip) (1.45mb)
• InterBase 6.0 Language Reference (pdf) (zip) (1.28mb)
• InterBase 6.0 Getting Started (pdf) (zip) (0.43mb)
• InterBase 6.0 All of the above (pdf) (zip) (8.88mb)
• InterBase 6.0 SQL Reference (.html)

InterBase V4.0 Documentation

• InterBase 4.0 Documentation for Linux (tar.gz) (2.28mb)

InterBase V3.0 Documentation

1987. Converted from original troff to .pdf and available for download, especially useful are the BLR and QLI syntax guides. Converted by Luis Forra, many thanks Luis.

• BLR (Binary Language Representation) Syntax (pdf) (78kb)
• Call Syntax - API Guide (.pdf) (121kb)
• DDL (Data Definition Language) Syntax (pdf) (79kb)
• GDML (Data Manipulation Language) Syntax (pdf) (113kb)
• SQL Syntax (.pdf) (71kb)
• QLI (Query Language Interpreter) Syntax (pdf) (143kb)
• All of the above (.zip) (495kb)