[Firebird-net-provider] Do I always need to write the physical path to my database in the connection string?

[Miguel M <bo...@ne...>]

Coming from mysql and trying to get a hand on Firebird I found a 'weird'
thing
My connection string is like this:
   string conn =
    "User=xxxx;"                  +
    "Password=xxxxx;"           +
    "Database=f:\\fire\\data\\fire.fdb;"  +
    "DataSource=localhost;"         +
    "Port=3050;"                    +
    "Dialect=3;"                    +
    "Charset=ISO8859_1;"            +
    "Role=;"                        +
    "Connection lifetime=30;"       +
    "Pooling=true;"                 +
    "Packet Size=8192";

and my question is can't  "Database=f:\\fire\\data\\fire.fdb;" be replaced
with an alias? Like "Database=fire;"  instead of having to write the
physical path? Or this is the way it always should be and I have just a bad
habit? :)