And in short: Firebird is NOT something like Microsoft Access.



From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul Vinkenoog
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 1:10 AM
To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [firebird-support] Firebird won't start..





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





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