Firebird Database Installation

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(Author: Nan YU/www.d2school.com)

As a programmer, you must remember one sentence: "80%ProgramDatabase is required "-- of course, why is it 80% instead of 81.2 or 79.9%? Then you should not die with me.

To continue, as a programmer, you must also understand the fact that commercial databases are expensive, such as Oracle, SQL Server of Microsoft, or DB2 of IBM, they are not only expensive, but you still need to use them after you buy them: Some increase the money based on the number of database users, and some double the number of CPUs on the machine ...... The following is a scenario:

...... Your neighbor is your alma mater-the length of a certain grade in a middle school. She has a headache recently because the final exam is coming again. According to the regulations, teachers have to record 6 course records of 200 students in five classes in the year, and analyze and process the records, such as sorting, pass rate, excellent rate calculation, it is better to compare with the data of the same period last year ...... It is too difficult to use access-based desktop database software to process such a job. It takes too much time every year ...... If there is a software that allows the teacher to find 20 voluntary students to input data separately, and there is a powerful database in the background for real-time merge, that would be nice!

I heard that you will program the program. This Duan long deliberately chooses a dark night ...... Oh, wrong. I went to the door one night with my favorite snacks in my hand. Here, miss Nan told everyone with 100% confidence that if you have completed the second school course, such software can be done by tapping the keyboard while eating snacks-So you agree with the requirements of honorable teachers-a free turbos programming tool has just been available recently, it gives you more confidence.

Software completed in one week! Good guys do it to the end, you enthusiastically install this software client to every computer in the school, and finally pick a computer with the best configuration to prepare to install the background database-then the principal heard the wind, hold your hands tightly, thanks again and again! And said on the spot that you would like to pay 1000 yuan from some difficult education funds. You finally laughed several times and started to formally install the database. The principal suddenly asked you, "Shouldn't this database be genuine? If you want to buy a genuine version, how much does it cost ?"

Your voice is very low, but all the teachers in the office and the lovely group of children around the door have heard: "It's not too expensive ...... The size of our school is ...... That's ...... 0.2 million 0.3 million ......"

Embarrassed? Sad? Sad? Angry? The students hope to have the software. However, unless you decide to pirated software, the value of the software you have made in your life will never be so small as the huge fees of those database giants, so the gray head and dirt face. Does this happen only in your score analysis system? No, it occurs in those 80% software systems that need to use databases. For example, in enterprise management, I once saw a set of small and medium-sized enterprise management system software on the shelf. The exquisite packaging was written with a line of small words to the effect: "The quotation for this set of software does not include the SQL server system, ask the customer to find a solution when installing it. "-- what does this mean? 1st. Those customers must understand what is "SQL Server" and "2nd". In my understanding, they must also know where the pirated software market in this city is.

As a programmer, you must understand that, in China, you use piracy for personal purposes or are not illegal. However, if you spread piracy, it is illegal! Be careful when you install pirated databases for school machines.

A long time ...... Everyone is frustrated. Will we always be able to write 20% of software for "spread piracy? No. As a programmer, you must finally be very happy to know that there are many open spaces in the world.Source codeDatabase System, and do not have money. These databases are used by hundreds of millions of companies, websites, and individual developers all over the world! This course will focus on "free, open-source, cross-platform" databases with Borland commercial database InterBase ,. net is supported, and it also has an embedded version. It is called Firebird. You can call it "Firebird/Phoenix". However, I often call it "FB ".

Why is the database expensive? Because merchants know that databases are very important. Why are there open-source free products for databases? Because not only merchants know the database is very important.

1. Download Firebird

If you have installed a database system similar to Oracle that can easily access G, you may wonder if Firebird will take up a long download time and a huge disk space?

Answer: The Firebird installation program is only 2.65 m (does your USB flash drive have long teeth? Put FB in its teeth ).

The test version of FB has reached version 2.0, But we chose its latest stable version: v1.5.3.4870.

Go to the fireird stable Version Download Page: Firebird RDBMS downloads; then find:

(Windows Executable installer Version)

That's right. We downloaded the executable installer version for Windows. Of course, it's only the latest version as of today.

RDBMS: relational database management system.

Next, we need to check whether your system has installed the old version of the FB Program-do not immediately make sure that you have not installed it, after all, there are still a lot of database software using FB, maybe you have installed it without knowing it, so let's take a look and then confirm it.

2. Stop the old Firebird version.

If your system has installed the old version of FB before, we must stop the old version of FB before installing the new version. Follow these steps:

Go to the control panel. For Windows XP or later, you may have to find "other control panel options" in the control panel ":

(If the style is XP, go to other control panel options)

Find the control icon of Firebird:

(This Firebird)

Click here to perform the following operations:

(Prepare to stop running the old version of FB)

After completing step 1 and step 2, click OK to exit. Then, you should restart the machine.

After installing the new version, we will resume the configuration on this page.

In this way, we only stopped running the old version of FB. If you encounter some difficulties in the subsequent installation process, you may need to uninstall the old version of FB. The uninstall of FB is similar to that of other common programs.

3. Install Firebird

There's nothing to say. Run the downloaded Installer. You can run the package "Next.

(Step 1)

(Step 2)

(Step 3)

4. Configure Firebird

Refer to the position of the control panel displayed in step 1 to go to the configuration page of the FB service:

(Configure Firebird service options)

After you click Finish settings, if the icon you see also has a Red Cross, click the "Start" button on the right of the icon to start the installed FB. Under normal circumstances, the status after start is:

(After start)

Now Firebird, Which is cheap and sufficient, has been successfully deployed on your system.

Yes, even after the installation, Firebird only has more than 9 m points, but soon, with your use, the space occupied by the bird will rapidly expand-this is the essential function of the database: determined by "Support for fast data storage and query.

Reference resources

Firebird official homepage

Firebird Chinese community