BANGALORE, INDIA: FireBird is an open-source RDBMS (such as MySQL), which runs on Windows, Linux and UNIX platforms. FireBird scores

better than MySQL since it supports triggers, procedures, UDFs (User Defined Functions), roles, exceptions and database shadows.

Its functionality is, in fact, similar to RDBMSs such as MySQL and Oracle, finding use in production systems. As another example, if you want to shift the database for your accounting package to an RDBMS and want to do that for free, you can try FireBird.

It comes with various programming interfaces, such as ODBC, ADO.NET and JDBC.

Click here to install and configure this RDBMS on Windows, and connect it to a sample VB 6.0 application.