The Firebird Book: A Reference for Database Developers / Edition 1

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Overview

Although less publicized than other open source database management systems, Firebird continues to gain a dedicated following of professional users. Figures have already reached hundreds of thousands worldwide, in Firebird's shorthistory in open source. And until now, no other book has been available.

This is the first, official book on Firebird—the free, independent, open source relational database server that emerged in 2000. Based on the actual Firebird Project, this book will provide all you need to know about Firebird database development, like installation, multi-platform configuration, SQL, interfaces, and maintenance.

This comprehensive guide will help you build stable and scalable relational database back-ends for all sizes of client/server networks. The text is well-stocked with tips, code examples, and explanations to reinforce the material covered. This book concentrates on Firebird edition 1.5—complete with updated language, security and optimization features—without neglecting the needs of Firebird 1.0 users.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781590592793
  • Publisher: Apress
  • Publication date: 8/4/2004
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 1128
  • Product dimensions: 7.08 (w) x 9.22 (h) x 2.32 (d)

Meet the Author

Helen Borrie is a database and application developer, a member of the Firebird project team, and a former journalist who doubles as a technical writer. She is a frequent contributor to support lists for Firebird, InterBase, and Delphi database programming.
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Table of Contents

Pt. 1 Boot camp 3
Ch. 1 Installation 3
Ch. 2 Network setup 29
Ch. 3 Configuring Firebird 45
Ch. 4 Operating basics 55
Pt. 2 Client/server 73
Ch. 5 Introduction to client/server architecture 75
Ch. 6 Firebird server 85
Ch. 7 Firebird clients 95
Pt. 3 Firebird data types and domains 111
Ch. 8 About Firebird data types 113
Ch. 9 Number types 127
Ch. 10 Data and time types 143
Ch. 11 Character types 161
Ch. 12 BLOBs and arrays 181
Ch. 13 Domains 191
Pt. 4 A database and its objects 205
Ch. 14 From drawing board to database 207
Ch. 15 Creating and maintaining a database 231
Ch. 16 Tables 261
Ch. 17 Referential integrity 297
Ch. 18 Indexes 315
Pt. 5 Firebird SQL 345
Ch. 19 Firebird's SQL language 347
Ch. 20 DML queries 353
Ch. 21 Expressions and predicates 387
Ch. 22 Querying multiple tables 431
Ch. 23 Ordered and aggregated sets 467
Ch. 24 Views 485
Pt. 6 Transactions 503
Ch. 25 Overview of Firebird transactions 505
Ch. 26 Configuring transactions 521
Ch. 27 Programming with transactions 535
Pt. 7 Server programming 561
Ch. 28 Introduction to Firebird programming 563
Ch. 29 Developing PSQL modules 573
Ch. 30 Stored procedures 601
Ch. 31 Triggers 641
Ch. 32 Error handling and events 665
Pt. 8 Security 687
Ch. 33 Security in the operating environment 689
Ch. 34 Server protection 697
Ch. 35 Database-level security 713
Ch. 36 Configuration and special features 739
Pt. 9 Tools 777
Ch. 37 Interactive SQL utility (isql) 779
Ch. 38 Database backup and restore (gbak) 813
Ch. 39 Housekeeping tool (gfix) 835
Ch. 40 Understanding the lock manager 855
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  • Anonymous

    Posted Sat Oct 09 00:00:00 EDT 2004

    keep your productivity if you migrate

    In the field of open source, there are only a few major relational databases - MySQL, Postgres and Firebird. MySQL has been garnering prominent wins recently, whereas Firebird has been steadily chugging along with relatively little publicity. But the book shows that if you are considering a free database, you should seriously look at Firebird. The book describes a very highly fleshed out database, that supports much standard SQL querying. Plus Firebird has had stored procedures and foreign keys for some time. The book goes into detail on these. Whereas MySQL has only its latest version incorporating them. Not as mature as Firebird's. The core of the book is its Part 5, with several chapters talking about Firebird's SQL variant. The good news is that you should recognise much of it already. Much of your previous SQL experience should carry over to Firebird. Preserves your productivity if you migrate.

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