Firelink plugin

Introduction

Firelink allows you to use odbc drivers to connect your Firebird database with other database servers. With Firelink data exchange between Firebird and a remote server has never been easier.

It works by executing SQL statements within a stored procedure or EXECUTE BLOCK using the EXECUTE STATEMENT command. A special protocol communicates with the ODBC driver, establishing an external connection to the target database.

Firelink offers several advantages:

• Data exchange is potentially faster when transferring data between Firebird and a remote server.
• It eliminates the need to use an intermediary client application to handle this data exchange.

Firelink is available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions for Windows and Linux.

Requirements

Firelink has no special requirements. However you will need to install the odbc driver for the remote database. And if you are running linux you will also need to install the ODBC libraries for your distribution. This is typically unixODBC.

You will also need a remote database to connect to. If you don’t have one handy you can try using the Firebird ODBC driver to connect to another Firebird database. The Firebird ODBC driver is available to download from here.

And a working knowledge of your target RDBMS is also necessary. IBPhoenix is unable to provide more than minimal assistance for servers other than Firebird.

Quick Start Installation Guide

• Stop the firebird server
• Unpack the 7zip file into your Firebird install
• Configure the plugin (see next section)
• Restart the firebird server

Configuration

• Add Firelink to the Providers list in firebird.conf:

  Providers = Firelink,Remote,Engine13,Loopback
  

  Important

  The order of providers is important.

• Paste your license key into plugins/Firelink.conf:

  LicenseKey = R6ra5rGUdz9ev47ILIzMTS5YurK1zIMT8gPRv5bPI5sa6ESgYQTnue2rvZLHtfAtVpNMZp/7ZQgGUU0/CyViMgqCmBfaPapMAOvgaYN7wU0m+FrLbtoB0TLonCWxc/Uns2FC6jzPRHA4aZNAMf4VYm+IF0PsYP9Xb148m3vAIhoA
  

  Note

  The key must be on a single line

And that’s it.

Licensing

On purchase of an appropriate server license, a download of the software will be made available. Purchased licenses will be send by separate e-mail.

You can purchase the plugin in our web store, or via bank transfer after you send us an order.