Firebird Interactive SQL Utility Kamala Vadlamani, Paul Vinkenoog, Norman Dunbar, Mark Rotteveel Version 1.0, 24 December 2021 Table of Contents 1. Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 10. Setting The ISC_USER And ISC_PASSWORD Environment Variables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 11. SQL Dialects. . Contents 3 Chapter 1. Introduction This manual provides reference material for the Firebird Interactive SQL Utility (isql), and instructions on how to use it to perform tasks within the database. 

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 4. Interactive Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 7.2. Differences Between Batch And Interactive Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 7.3. Batch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 7.4. Errors In Batch Mode Swap To Interactive Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 7.5. Potential

Longer Works ................................................................................ 10 Interactive Option Added to instsvc.exe .................................................................. Notes, in Changes to the Firebird API and ODS. The FIREBIRD Variable FIREBIRD is an optional environment variable that provides a system-level pointer to the root directory of the Firebird installation accompanying Release Notes. Interactive Option Added to instsvc.exe D. Yemanov The optional switch -i[nteractive] has been implemented in instsvc.exe to enable an interactive mode for LocalSystem services

Supplies the password for the username specified above. This need not be supplied if ISC_PASSWORD environment variable exists and has the correct value. -RO[LE] Allows the specification of switch specified), any valid username can be specified. This need not be supplied if ISC_USER environment variable exists and has a correct value for the username. Databases can only be backed up by above that a valid username and password must be defined on the command line, or by the use of environment variables ISC_USER and ISC_PASSWORD. This version of the command will exit with a error code of

cli- ent/server network. Note For information about using NetBEUI protocol in an all-Windows environment, refer to Chapter 6, Network Configuration in the Using Firebird manual. Warning IPX/SPX networks You can now continue to play about with the employee.gdb database. The characters isql stand for interactive SQL [utility]. You can use it for querying data, getting information about the metadata, creating command prompt type SQL>QUIT;# For more information about isql, see Using Firebird, Chapter 10: Interactive SQL Utility (isql). Using a GUI client GUI client tools usually take charge of composing the

gone) InterBase or Firebird installation floating around your system (DLLs, Registry entries, environment variables...) Installing the Firebird server Installation drives Firebird server – and any databases the server” section below. • For information about using the NetBEUI protocol in an all-Windows environment, refer to the Network Configuration chapter in the Using Firebird manual sold by IBPhoenix, or /opt/firebird directory. If you place it somewhere else, create a system-wide permanent FIREBIRD environment variable pointing to the right directory, so that the API routines can locate the messages. 4

gone) InterBase or Firebird installation floating around your system (DLLs, Registry entries, environment variables…) 3.1. Installation kits At the Firebird website, https://firebirdsql.org, the installation /opt/firebird directory. If you place it somewhere else, create a system-wide permanent FIREBIRD environment variable pointing to the right directory, so that the API routines can locate the messages. 4 a text-mode client named isql (Interactive SQL utility). You can use it in several ways to connect to a database. One of them, shown below, is to start it in interactive mode. Go to the directory where

implementation are: • Dynamic SQL (DSQL) • Procedural SQL (PSQL) • Embedded SQL (ESQL) • Interactive SQL (ISQL) Dynamic SQL is the major part of the language which corresponds to the Part 2 (SQL/Foundation) Only a portion of the statements and expressions implemented in DSQL are supported in ESQL. Interactive ISQL refers to the language that can be executed using Firebird isql, the command-line application is DSQL. It also offers a few additional commands that are not available outside its specific environment. Both DSQL and PSQL subsets are completely presented in this reference. Neither ESQL nor ISQL

implementation are: • Dynamic SQL (DSQL) • Procedural SQL (PSQL) • Embedded SQL (ESQL) • Interactive SQL (ISQL) Dynamic SQL is the major part of the language which corresponds to the Part 2 (SQL/Foundation) Only a portion of the statements and expressions implemented in DSQL are supported in ESQL. Interactive ISQL refers to the language that can be executed using Firebird isql, the command-line application is DSQL. It also offers a few additional commands that are not available outside its specific environment. Both DSQL and PSQL subsets are completely presented in this reference. Neither ESQL nor ISQL

fonctionnalités. Serveurs Posix Utilisez la commande top dans un shell pour inspecter de manière interactive les processus en exécution. Si un Firebird Superserver est en cours d'exécution, vous devriez voir continuer à faire des tests avec la base de données employee.fdb. Les caractères isql veulent dire interactive SQL [utility](utilitaire SQL interactif). Vous pouvez utiliser cet utilitaire pour faire des requêtes isql. Ici, nous allons utiliser la manière la plus simple de créer une base de données de façon interactive – cependant, pour vos travaux de définition de base de données plus sérieux, vous devriez créer