It sounds like Firebird may be more then you need. Maybe Dbase,
Paradox, or Access might be more your speed. They are lite weight DB
that come with a built in front end development tool. Large companies
run mission critical application based on FB as a back end.

Often, non DB people confuse Database with DB + Programming tool through
lack of experience. If you want to use a more sophisticated database
like Firebird, there are drivers that you use with development tools
like VS 2005, Delphi, Java, etc. Of course this means you will need to
learn a lot more about programming and databases (then you currently
seem to have an understanding of).

havecatswilltravel wrote:

> I really don't know what to say. Maybe I'm in the wrong place? I'll
> try not to be offensive, but it will be difficult.
>
> I have data. I need a place to store my data and I need some way to
> query that data. That's IT. When I downloaded Firebird I was
> expecting to find something I could use for the above purpose.
> Instead, it seems as though I've joined some sort of cult? Sorry, I'm
> not interested in rituals, just being able to work with a computer
> program in the usual way.
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> I have no server. Just a computer. I have data. A fair amount. I
> activate the software I've downloaded. And I get a prompt looking very
> much like a DOS prompt. And I have no idea what I'm supposed to enter
> there -- or why in the year 2006 I am seeing such a prompt.
>
> I'm sure Firebird is not what I need. So can anyone here recommend
> what I DO need? I THOUGHT it was database software. Sorry, I must
> have been wrong.
>
> Yours Truly,
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> Victor Grauer
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