Re: [Firebird-net-provider] [firebird net] Install Firebird / Create Database File

[Mark R. <ma...@la...>]

On 2017-03-17 20:16, Clyde Eisenbeis wrote:
> I clearly misunderstood.
> 
> To be certain I understand the terminology, an embedded server is one
> that is accessible via the Internet?

No, Firebird Embedded is a (native) client API that directly accesses a 
Firebird database engine in the same process, it does not open ports 
that make the database server externally accessible.

As a simplification, a normal Firebird server is a component that 
listens on the network (eg through TCP/IP) and accesses the database 
engine. When an application access this server through the native client 
API, this API translates the calls to the (TCP/IP) wire protocol, and 
the server-side translates this back to native calls that go to the 
database engine.

On the other hand in Firebird embedded, the network part is skipped, so 
the native client access goes directly to the database engine.

> I do want this database to eventually be accessible via the Internet.

A Firebird Embedded is not network accessible.

> I know which tables I want ... and which fields I want in each table.
> 
> By dependencies, does that mean table names, field names, passwords, 
> sizes?

No, by dependencies I mean other files (dlls) that are necessary for the 
Firebird database engine to run inside your C# process.

> How do I create, or download, the Firebird embedded server?
> 
> How do I create this database?

As I said on stack overflow, I'll try to post a more complete answer 
later this weekend. Also check the other answer posted recently, the 
links in that mail handle some older versions, but should still apply in 
general.

Mark