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Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL-92 features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. It offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers.
Firebird 2 contains a large number of new features, including derived tables, support for Execute Block, increased table sizes
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