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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

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<!-- Purpose: database.vendors -->

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<!-- Membership: bundled, external -->

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<book xml:id="book.ibase" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">

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<?phpdoc extension-membership="pecl" ?>

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<title>Firebird/InterBase</title>

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<preface xml:id="intro.ibase">

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&reftitle.intro;

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<warning>

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<para>

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&pecl.info.dead.git;

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<link xlink:href="&url.php.git.mirror;pecl-database-interbase">&url.php.git.mirror;pecl-database-interbase</link>.

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</para>

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</warning>

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<para>

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Firebird/InterBase is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL-92 features

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that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird/InterBase

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Firebird is a relational database offering many ISO SQL-2003 features

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that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird

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offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language

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support for stored procedures and triggers. It has been used in production

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systems, under a variety of names since 1981.

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</para>

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<para>

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InterBase is the name of the closed-source variant of this RDBMS that

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was developed by Borland/Inprise. More information about InterBase is

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was developed by Embarcadero/Inprise. More information about InterBase is

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available at <link xlink:href="&url.ibase;">&url.ibase;</link>.

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</para>

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<para>

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Firebird is a commercially independent project of C and C++ programmers,

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Firebird is a commercially independent project (fundation) of C++ programmers,

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technical advisors and supporters developing and enhancing a multi-platform

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relational database management system based on the source code released by

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Inprise Corp (now known as Borland Software Corp) under the InterBase

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Inprise Corp (now known as Embarcadero) under the InterBase

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Public License v.1.0 on 25 July, 2000. More information about Firebird is

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available at <link xlink:href="&url.firebird;">&url.firebird;</link>.

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</para>

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<note>

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<para>

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This extension supports InterBase versions 5 and up and all versions of Firebird.

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&pecl.moved-ver;7.4.0

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</para>

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<para>

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This database uses a single quote (') character for escaping, a

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behavior similar to the Sybase database, add to your

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&php.ini; the following directive:

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<informalexample>

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<![CDATA[

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This extension supports InterBase versions 6 and up and Firebird version 2.0 and up.

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</para>

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</note>

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</preface>

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