Further Information

Paid Support

Paid support worldwide for Firebird can be arranged through IBPhoenix. Contact addresses and numbers are at the IBPhoenix site.

Database recovery services for Firebird or InterBase databases can be handled by IBPhoenix. For analyzing and possibly repairing corrupted databases yourself, try IBSurgeon.com. The IBSurgeon team also provides recovery services.

Sponsorship

Requests/offers for sponsored enhancements to Firebird can be taken directly to the Firebird Foundation Inc., a non-profit organisation of Firebird community members that manages sponsorship and donor funding for the Firebird Project. Send an email to <foundation@firebirdsql.org>.

You may prefer to contact the Firebird project admins initially - send an email to

<firebirds@users.sourceforge.net>.

Tools and Drivers

Following is a selection of third-party products, both open source and commercial, that are available and used widely by Firebird developers.

Database Admin Tools

Several excellent choices of GUI admin desktops for Firebird are listed in the Contributed Downloads page at the IBPhoenix site. Some are open source, some are freeware, others are established commercial products.

Note

Borland's IBConsole program is not recommended as a database administration client for Firebird 1.5.

Drivers and Components

JAVA

The Jaybird JDBC driver project develops actively as part of the Firebird project. It has a released Type 4 JDBC/JCA driver and a Type 2 driver in beta. Sources and binaries can be downloaded from the Firebird release pages at Sourceforge.

For advice and to participate in development and testing, join up with the Firebird-java forum on Yahoogroups.

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