The Firebird project has been highly active in recent months with numerous updates and releases. In July 2025, the project celebrated its 25th Anniversary, marking a quarter-century of development and …

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The Firebird Project supplies users, developers, and administrators with various kinds of documentation, from Quick Start guides to expert-level articles devoted to various aspects of Firebird.

Firebird 4.0 introduces new data types and many improvements without radical changes in architecture or operation, the most important are: logical replication, longer metadata identifiers, international time …

Firebird 5.0 introduces improvements in areas of performance, multithreaded processing (including backup, restore, sweep), SQL queries profiling, with better scalability and numerous enhancements …

Apr 2, 2024 · The Firebird Quick Start Guide is an introduction for the complete newcomer to a few essentials for getting off to a quick start with a Firebird binary kit. The guide first saw the light as …

The primary goals for Firebird 3.0 were to unify the server architecture and to improve support for SMP and multiple-core hardware platforms. Parallel objectives were to improve threading of engine …

Firebird SQL: The true open-source relational database

If you are in the common situation of running Windows clients to a Linux or other Unix-like Firebird server (or another Windows machine), you need to download the full Windows installation kit that …

Firebird Generator Guide Introduction Generator Basics SQL statements for generators Using generators to create unique row IDs What else to do with generators Migration from MS-SQL to …