specific error condition. Error handling can be done as in the client the application and on the server side using PSQL. 2.2. Basic Elements: Statements, Clauses, Keywords The primary construct in SQL zone; otherwise, by default, it uses the same time zone as the operating system of the Firebird server process. This default can be overridden in firebird.conf, setting DefaultTimeZone.  Drivers may are automatically re-encoded, both when data are sent from the client to the server and when they are sent back from the server to the client. For example, if the database was created in the WIN1251 encoding

.................................................................................... 5 Embedded Server for Windows .................................................................................... ...................................................................... 9 Installing the Firebird server ................................................................................................ ............................................................................................. 14 Server configuration and management ...................................................................

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Bugs that crash the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . can’t tell if it contains S2; etcetera. Using LIKE with a NULL escape character would crash the server in Firebird versions up to and including 1.5. This bug was fixed in v.1.5.1. From that version onward CHAR[ACTER]_LENGTH() • OCTET_LENGTH() • TRIM()  Notes • In 1.0.0, EXTRACT from a NULL date would crash the server. Fixed in 1.0.2. • If the first argument to GEN_ID is a valid generator name and the second argument

checking than dialect 1! 2.4.1. Client dialects and generator values Clients talking to a Firebird server can set their dialect to 1 or 3, regardless of the database they are connected to. It is the client determines how Firebird passes generator values to the client: • If the client dialect is 1, the server returns generator values as truncated 32-bit integers to the client. But inside the database they client). This is true both for dialect 1 and dialect 3 databases. • If the client dialect is 3, the server passes the full 64-bit value to the client. Again, this holds whether the database dialect is 1

in comparison to the data manipulation language (DML) employed for queries and the PSQL used for server-based programming. The leader of the Firebird Project’s documentation team, Paul Vinkenoog, took database but are restored to match the defined length when the column is displayed on the client side. Network traffic is reduced by not sending spaces over the LAN. If the number of characters is not data type, available only in Dialect 3. If a client uses Dialect 1, the generator value sent by the server is reduced to a 32-bit integer (INTEGER). When Dialect 3 is used for connection, the generator value

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.2. Installing the Firebird server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.2.4. Server modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pinging the server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3.4.2. Making sure that the Firebird server is running

................................................................................. 12 Choosing a Server Model .......................................................................................... ......................................................................... 25 Installing Classic Server from a zip kit ................................................................................. ..................................................................... 27 Installing an Embedded Server Application ........................................................................... 27 Installation

code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 5. Embedded Firebird Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . database it must connect to the Firebird server process. On receiving a connect request the server process will authenticate the user credentials against the server users defined in the security database database. If authentication is successful the server will allow the application access to any database that it requests and then use the roles and privileges defined in that database to provide fine-grained

simultaneously, they have to listen on different ports. This requires some setup on both server and client side. Information on how to do this may be added to this document later, if the maintainer finds the time. For now, you'll have to consult the section Configuring the port service on client and server from the Release Notes (in the doc subdirectory of your Firebird 1.5 installation). Running Firebird either server with the click of a button; if you start a server, DBServerToggler will first halt the other one if it's running. You can choose between application mode and service mode for each server independently

............ 8 Pinging the server ...................................................................................................... 8 Checking that the Firebird server is running ................ ................................................................... 11 A network address for the server ............................................................................... 11 Default user name database .................................................................................... 13 Server name and path ..................................................................................