Driver Odbc Firebird 2.1 Download Fix
Angeles Bartholomew
The driver provides full support for the Microsoft ODBC interface, its functions, and data types. It offers advanced connection string parameters and allows any ODBC compliant desktop or web application to connect to Firebird from various environments and platforms.
Database as well as the ODBC driver can be downloaded from The RDBMSitself has two types of architecture: Classic and SuperServer. We will bediscussing the SuperServer architecture in this article. Refer to =ibphoenix&page=ibp_ss_vs_classicfor more information about the difference between the two architectures.
Installation of the RDBMS as well as the ODBC driver ispretty straight forward. There are no configuration parameters during setup.Once the setup is complete, ensure that Firebird service is running.
Posted by Martin on 2/20/13 4:45 AMI have the same Problem as ezekiel mbori and francisco. Please help me ;-)Posted by ezekiel mbori on 6/30/12 2:21 AMWant to connect to firebird database from MS SQL LINKED SERVERS. How do i go about it.Posted by francisco on 5/7/12 10:24 AM windows server 2008:after odbc 2.0.1.152 instalation, Idid a test conection, so I had post error "open database (namedb.fdb) failed".windows XP: after odbc 2.0.1.152 instalation, Idid a test conection, so I had connection successful.I think that this problem from windows server 2008. Can you help-me? Thanks.Posted by ashish ojha on 7/1/19 5:04 AMPlease provide me steps to setup window auth with client application with "Firebird-2.5.2.26539_0_Win32". I am trying but unable. Also how i can configure windows auth with "Database Workbench Pro 5".Posted by AugSoft on 9/27/11 8:16 PMGreat article! We recommend this for people connecting to Firebird SQL 2.5 from an iPad, iPhone or other iOS device using our SDK ( )Posted by Nattcho on 3/27/14 2:07 AMThanks a lotit was very usufulPosted by Edison on 5/18/11 9:59 PMHi there, just like George Sideris, im also encountering database opening failure. Here is the situation, I have 2 instances of Firebird Server in the services. First is Firebird 2.1, running under port number 3050. Second is Firebird 2.5, running under port number 3055. Now, I wanted to connect to the second firebird server(port 3055), through ODBC. I followede the instructions above which is to put "localhost/3055:C:\..\db.fdb". But still a failure. Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks a bunch.Posted by shafiq on 8/31/16 1:45 PMVisit this I have uploaded a working Ms access with firebird backend Posted by Bruce on 8/15/11 6:29 PMEdison, the probable reason you are having problems is that the Firebird driver you are using is for Firebird 2.0 and will not enable a link to 2.1 or 2.5, I am having the same problem (the link worked perfectly with 2.0 but stopped working when the database was upgraded to 2.1). There doesn't seem to be a new driver in the public domain yet.Posted by George Sideris on 12/23/10 9:12 PMCannot connect to firebird with ODBC driver as installed from aboveTest Connection Gives message Open database (mydb) failedOS is W7 also same problem with SBS 2003Posted by Chiranjeevi on 11/3/11 8:01 AMCould someone tell me Why ODBC should be connected to Firebird database.I want to access tables and query from "c:\program files\Droster\Droster.gdb" which employee scheduling software.I am connecting this .gdb files from console even though not connected in ODBC configuration,please help me out
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Since I am using odbc connection, the fault was actually in the odbc connection configuration. You simply need to un-check the read (default write).
Now it works like a charm. Hope this helps someone.
I am not using the latest Firebird version since there are incompatibilities on the ODS version of my .FDB file, and it can only be understood by the current Firebird version I have. I tried changing the Firebird ODBC driver to 64-bit but I am getting an error:
Because of hardware architecture limitations 64 bits processes cannot load 32 bits libraries and vice versa. So if you want to use Firebird from 64 bits MS SQL server you must have 64 bits Firebird client and 64 bits Firebird ODBC driver installed.
Also, I'm not sure if Gordon's advice about using SQLAlchemy is correct, but I'd recommend investigating that (though below the covers SQLAlchemy will probably use FDB or maybe firebird-driver, so you'd still need a proper 64-bit client library to load).
I will be able to execute the package again as long as I am still logged in to the SQL server (I logged in to install the Firebird drivers). I can execute it even from a remove SQL Server Management Studio connection -- but as long as I do not log off from the server.
The same code (a fully-qualified DBI::dbConnect(odbc::odbc()...) call) works perfectly fine when called from an R prompt either in a standalone shell or in the Rstudio terminal, but fails to connect when called from the Rstudio console in the same (fresh) session:
I've ruled out environment variables by swapping each of the environments. The odbc connection string works fine too. I suspect it's a permissions/shell setup/.bash_profile problem.
Any suggestions on where to go next? Installing the database drivers using a different method (which worked around the problem in the above thread) isn't an option for me. I've got a bit out of my depth at this point!
It looks like DBI::dbConnect or odbc::odbc are performing system calls which don't inherit the environment variables from the R session, or from /etc/profile, /etc/profile.d/.. or /.bashrc (unless I did something stupid). Hence even though my session had correct values for LD_LIBRARY_PATH (set in Renviron.site) the resulting connection attempt did not, so couldn't find certain required system libraries.
This is a wild one!! One possible way to resolve these env vars as well is to use the not-very-well-documented env-vars file. I believe this works much like systemd config, but was added in the few years or so for these types of use cases. I'm surprised that environment variables are not getting passed to the connection though - I think this definitely deserves an issue in the odbc package!
This article is part of a series that includes SQLite, Postgresql, Microsoft SQLServer, Oracle RDBMS, HSQLDB, MariaDB, MongoDB, and Excel. The goal is to set up a self-standing environment for testing an ODBC extension for gawk presented here to be completed. Refer to SQLite for installing the required ODBC Driver Manager.
The test system is a debian v11 (bullseye).
As root, install the Firebird RDBMS and its ODBC drivers from the official repositories:
With those recompiled drivers, isql still works and pyodbc still fails but only while executing the SELECT statement. As shown later, the gawk extension has no problem anymore: it works with the drivers from Devart as well as the recompiled drivers; thus, we still have the option of free drivers.
Despite pyodbc, Firebird is now fully accessible from any ODBC application under the debian account.
Instructions for the other data sources can be accessed through the following links:
SQLite
HSQLDB
MariaDB
PostgreSQL
Oracle
Microsoft SQLServer for Linux
MongoDB
Excel
Setting up the Data Source / Connection Manager; As the VS2008 install is 32 bit, we assumed the 32 bit ODBC driver would be invoked and it is. The connection string is correct. The Test Connection button provides a friendly 'succeeded' message.
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