If you need access to data of database in Borland InterBase (extension. GDB) for without consulting them and export them to have InterBase installed, proceed as follows (the procedure was tested on the version of InterBase 6):
- First you must install the database engine, then use Firebird 1.0 downloaded from the site www.firebirdsql.org (this is a normal Windows setup).
- Download IB_SQL this program allows access to data in Firebird, and their export, requires no installation procedure, just extract the contents of the downloaded file and run the executable.
- Connect to the database using SQL IB (the default password is masterkey).
- Select the Export feature dataset from the database.
- Write SQL for data mining and execute it.
- Export the data.
