| Subject | Re: [firebird-support] Firebird won't start.. |
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| Author | Helen Borrie |
| Post date | 2011-02-11T00:06:59Z |
At 12:04 PM 11/02/2011, you wrote:
Firebird guardian is just an application that watches to make sure the server keeps running. It will try to restart it if it stops for some reason.
Applications access databases through the client library (fbclient.dll, which you will find in the ..\bin directory of your installation). When you write your own apps, you will also need to get a host-language interface layer to suit your programming language, e.g. Jaybird for Java, an appropriate suite of components for Delphi, IBPP for C/C++, ODBC driver for Microsoft-style front-ends, and so on.
Some applications come packaged with Firebird, including isql.exe, which is a command-line client application that also has a command shell (text) interface if you want to work interactively with the server. You create a database using the CREATE DATABASE command. You can also pick up numerous graphical client apps (some free, some not) with a variety of sophistication - visit the Downloads area at http://www.ibphoenix.com
for links to sites. You could also visit www.flamerobin.org for a GUI app that has all the basics.
In the ..\docs directory you will find a Quick Start guide that explains what you need to know to get going. You can visit the Firebird main website http://firebirdsql.org and find the Documentation Index, from which you can pick up the SQL language manuals, isql manual, and lots more.
./heLen
>I own a copy of Windows Vista and recently installed Firebird 2.5.0. I was hoping to straightaway start making a database with it. However, it is slightly hard to do this when I can't open the program. When I try to run Firebird Guardian, nothing happens. Not an error code, nothing. I know it's loading the executable file because there's a little hourglass symbol on the mouse for a fraction of a second, but no applications are coming up at all. It's quite frustrating.Umm...Firebird server is a database management system. It's running. You happen to be running it as an executable...although its natural way of running is for the executable to be run as a service.
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>If anyone has had this problem before and/or knows how to solve it, help would be greatly appreciated.
Firebird guardian is just an application that watches to make sure the server keeps running. It will try to restart it if it stops for some reason.
Applications access databases through the client library (fbclient.dll, which you will find in the ..\bin directory of your installation). When you write your own apps, you will also need to get a host-language interface layer to suit your programming language, e.g. Jaybird for Java, an appropriate suite of components for Delphi, IBPP for C/C++, ODBC driver for Microsoft-style front-ends, and so on.
Some applications come packaged with Firebird, including isql.exe, which is a command-line client application that also has a command shell (text) interface if you want to work interactively with the server. You create a database using the CREATE DATABASE command. You can also pick up numerous graphical client apps (some free, some not) with a variety of sophistication - visit the Downloads area at http://www.ibphoenix.com
for links to sites. You could also visit www.flamerobin.org for a GUI app that has all the basics.
In the ..\docs directory you will find a Quick Start guide that explains what you need to know to get going. You can visit the Firebird main website http://firebirdsql.org and find the Documentation Index, from which you can pick up the SQL language manuals, isql manual, and lots more.
./heLen