How to get help

The community of willing helpers around Firebird goes a long way back, to many years before the source code for its ancestor, InterBase® 6, was made open source. Collectively, the Firebird community does have all the answers! It even includes some people who have been involved with it since it was a design on a drawing board in a bathroom in Boston.

Visit the official Firebird Project site at http://www.firebirdsql.org and join the user support lists.
Visit the Firebird knowledge site at http://www.ibphoenix.com to look up a vast collection of information about developing with and using Firebird. IBPhoenix also sells a Developer CD with the Firebird binaries and lots of documentation.
See the growing list of documentation that has been produced within the Firebird project itself at http://www.firebirdsql.org/manual/.
Order the official Firebird Book at http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&s=1093098777:149734&page=ibp_firebird_book, for more than 1100 pages jam-packed with Firebird information.

Note

The IBPhoenix publications Using Firebird and The Firebird Reference Guide, though still on the Developer CD, are no longer actively maintained. However, most of the material contained in those docs will be brought up to date and added to the official project documentation.