gladi8r300 wrote:

> 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.

Check the Windows Services. The Firebird server is probably running already. If you follow all the default options in the installation program, the server is launched automatically after installation and at every system start.

Now you can connect to the server with a client program such as isql (command-line, comes with Firebird), FlameRobin (http://www.flamerobin.org/), or whatever. The server itself is not a client application that "comes up" visibly. This is not a desktop database tool - it's the real thing ;-)

To get started, have a look at the Quick Start Guide, which is also bundled with the Firebird download, by the way. The following chapters may be of particular interest to you (which is not to say that you should skip the rest!):

http://www.firebirdsql.org/manual/qsg25-installing.html
http://www.firebirdsql.org/manual/qsg25-databases.html


Hope this helps,
Paul Vinkenoog