Climbing the firebird learning curve

No’am Newman wrote about using Firebird:

I’ve spent the last week getting Firebird to work in my occupation psychologist’s office.
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So this week, I’ve learnt the following things

how to install FB on a network
how to access FB from client computers on that network
how to use the list view component
how to use an FB generator for auto-incremented integers
how to insert/update a date into an FB table

[to do]
That’s enough for one week.