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, in particular firebird-support. Look at http://www.firebirdsql.org/?op=lists for instructions.
Use the Firebird documentation index at http://www.firebirdsql.org/?op=doc.
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.
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.
As a last resort – since our documentation is still incomplete – you can consult the InterBase 6.0 beta manuals (the files whose names start with 60 at http://www.ibphoenix.com/downloads/) in combination with the Firebird 1.5 and 2.0 Release Notes.

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The IBPhoenix publications Using Firebird and The Firebird Reference Guide, though still on the Developer CD, are no longer actively maintained.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 documents is currently being brought up to date and added, bit by bit, to the official project documentation.