Firebird 2.0 and 2.1 Quick Start Guide IBPhoenix Editors Firebird Project members 11 July 2011, document version 3.11 covers Firebird 2.0–2.0.6 and 2.1–2.1.4 2 Table of Contents About this guide ........................................................................................ 3 The Firebird licenses ...................................................................................... .. 8 Installing Firebird ................................................................................................................................... 9 Installing the Firebird server .........

Firebird Internals Inside a Firebird Database Norman Dunbar Version 1.2, 13 August 2021 Table of Contents 1. Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. Database Structure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . document is to try to explain what goes on inside a Firebird database. Much of the information in this manual has been extracted from the Firebird source code — mainly on the ODS related code and headers

Firebird Database Cache Buffer Norman Dunbar, Martin Köditz Version 1.2, 28 May 2020 Table of Contents 1. Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. The Firebird Cache. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Table of Contents 1 Chapter 1. Introduction Firebird uses a page cache to hold pages in memory. It is much quicker to retrieve pages from RAM than to

Firebird Interactive SQL Utility Kamala Vadlamani, Paul Vinkenoog, Norman Dunbar, Mark Rotteveel Version 1.0, 24 December 2021 Table of Contents 1. Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2. Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Table of Contents 2 19.17. Show Secclasses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Firebird Password File Utility Norman Dunbar Version 1.5, 18 June 2020 Table of Contents 1. Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. Command Line Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . various Firebird databases. Using various options, users can be added, amended or deleted from the security database.  A privileged user is an account on the database server which the Firebird engine

Firebird Database Housekeeping Utility Norman Dunbar, Mark Rotteveel Version 2.1, 13 November 2023 Table of Contents 1. Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. Command Line Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 11.3. New Startup and Shutdown States in Firebird 2.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 12. Database

Firebird Backup & Restore Utility Norman Dunbar Version 1.12, 18 June 2020 Table of Contents 1. Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. Command-line Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . the database backup and restore utilities supplied with Firebird. In Firebird 1.5 it is the only supplied utility of this kind while Firebird 2.x also has the nbackup utility which is described in another

Firebird Null Guide NULL behaviour and pitfalls in Firebird SQL Paul Vinkenoog Version 1.2, 30 June 2020 Table of Contents 1. What is NULL? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2. NULL support in Firebird SQL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.4. Testing DISTINCTness (Firebird 2+) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Firebird 2.1 Error Codes Firebird 2.1 Error Codes SQLCODE GDSCODE SYMBOL TEXT 101 335544366 segment Segment buffer length shorter than expected 101 335544366 segment Segment buffer length shorter than user record. -85 335544757 error_updating_sec_db An error occurred while updating the security Firebird 2.1 Error Codes database. -103 335544571 dsql_constant_err Data type for constant unknown -104 reference to @2 datatype -104 336003087 dsql_invalid_label Label @1 @2 in the current scope -104 336003088 dsql_datatypes_not_comparable Datatypes @1are not comparable in expression @2 -104 335544343

Firebird 1.5 Error Codes Firebird 1.5 Error Codes from msg.gbak, release sources SQLCODE GDSCODE SYMBOL TEXT 101 335544366 segment Segment buffer length shorter than expected 100 335544338 from_no_match error_updating_sec_db An error occurred while updating the security database. Firebird 1.5 Error Codes Updated 04/30/04 p. 2 -103 335544571 dsql_constant_err Data type for constant unknown -104 335544343 335544822 dsql_agg_where_err Cannot use an aggregate function in a WHERE clause, use HAVING instead Firebird 1.5 Error Codes Updated 04/30/04 p. 3 -104 335544823 dsql_agg_group_err Cannot use an aggregate