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<h1 class="title">Introduction</h1>
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Firebird is a relational database offering many ISO SQL-2003 features
that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird
offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language
support for stored procedures and triggers. It has been used in production
systems, under a variety of names since 1981.
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InterBase is the name of the closed-source variant of this RDBMS that
was developed by Borland/Inprise. More information about InterBase is
available at <a href="http://www.borland.com/interbase/" class="link external">» http://www.borland.com/interbase/</a>.
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Firebird is a commercially independent project (fundation) of C++ programmers,
technical advisors and supporters developing and enhancing a multi-platform
relational database management system based on the source code released by
Inprise Corp (now known as Borland Software Corp) under the InterBase
Public License v.1.0 on 25 July, 2000. More information about Firebird is
available at <a href="http://www.firebirdsql.org/" class="link external">» http://www.firebirdsql.org/</a>.
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<blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>:
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This extension supports InterBase versions 6 and up and Firebird version 2.0 and up.
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This database uses a single quote (') character for escaping add to your
<var class="filename">php.ini</var> the following directive(Deprecated in PHP 5.3.0. Removed in PHP 5.4.0):
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