with 1 <= bin_prec <= 53. These non-standard type names are deprecated and may be removed in a future Firebird version. • Firebird 3.0 and earlier supported LONG FLOAT(dec_prec) where dec_prec was SCHEMA. They are synonymous, but we recommend to always use CREATE DATABASE as this may change in a future version of Firebird. A database may consist of one or several files. The first (main) file is called physical backups (DSQL only)  SCHEMA is currently a synonym for DATABASE; this may change in a future version, so we recommend to always use DATABASE Who Can Alter the Database The ALTER DATABASE

SET statement changes the default collation for the specified character set. It will affect the future usage of the character set, except for cases where the COLLATE clause is explicitly overridden. suggests. Its only effect currently is to disable the pre-fetch buffer.  It is likely to change in future: the plan is to validate cursors marked with FOR UPDATE if they are truly updateable and reject waiting transactions. Applications should not depend on this behaviour as it may get changed in the future. • While explicit locks can be used to prevent and/or handle unusual update conflict errors, the

supported by Firebird, and although until now it works in practice, this may not be the case in future versions. It’s better to stay safe and use the SQL given above. 15.2.2. Adding a CHECK constraint Firebird does not recommend or support this type of operation, nor is it guaranteed to keep working in future versions. That being said, it’s a relatively simple operation and if properly executed it shouldn’t system tables is not recommended or supported by Firebird, and not guaranteed to keep working in future versions. If the number of columns based on the domain is limited, it’s better to switch them over

Because of the needs described above it is common for users to request that Firebird should, in a future version, add the ability to encrypt metadata, selected user data, or even the entire database. Not it is possible that Firebird might provide some form of application authentication system in the future that may make it possible to limit this form of data extraction, however most of the same problems

from committed transactions, however, when the newest versions is being used by all current and future active transactions. The -⁠i[gnore] option may be supplied. This forces Firebird to ignore checksum Database Page Space Utilisation Firebird reserves some space on the data page for the possible future updates or deletes of records on this page, to reduce possible fragmentation. The amount of reserved

purpose is to allow a window for people to bring legacy code into line. It will be deprecated in future so there is no good reason for anyone to write non-compliant statements in new code! Multiple Hits care about particular installations can always use the default instance to locate the fbclient.dll. Future versions of Firebird may see other entries under Instances when the installation utilities can be

key one — and no data.  It is possible that the copy command will be removed from isql at some future release. 17.7. INput SQL> INput filename; This command enables the user to execute a number of SQL statements with no effect. • Pending database shutdown. • API calls that may be replaced in future versions of Firebird. • Expressions that may cause differing results in different versions of Firebird

Statement handle String Cursor name (null terminated) Int32 Cursor type (0).  Reserved for future use Server Generic response 5.10. Information request This is similar to Database information

Currently the new syntax does not support an increment other than 1. This limitation will be lifted in a future version. In the meantime, use GEN_ID if you need to apply another increment value. Chapter 3. SQL

the Guardian if Firebird runs as a service (which it should). The Guardian may be phased out in future versions of Firebird. 3.2.6. Installing on Linux and other Unix-like platforms In all cases, read