follow the instructions correctly, there should be nothing for you to do upon completion but log in and go! Windows platforms If you install Firebird 1.03 or higher under Windows 95/98/ME, uncheck the option attempted to document any known issues. Tip If you do not find a copy of the release notes in your kit, go back to the Downloads page of the Fire- bird website at http://firebird.sourceforge.net and download For example, if your server's IP address in the domain that is visible to your client is 192.13.14.1, go to a command shell and type the command ping 192.13.14.1 substituting this example IP address for

different. In the same vein, the System32 directory is reserved for 64-bit libraries. 32-bit libraries go into SysWOW64. That's right: 64-bit libraries are in System32, 32-bit libraries in SysWOW64. If you're installation instructions correctly, there should be nothing for you to do upon completion but log in and go! Firebird 2.0 and 2.1 Quick Start 10 Installing on Windows The Firebird installer lets you choose For example, if your server's IP address in the domain that is visible to your client is 192.13.14.1, go to a command shell on the client machine and type the command ping 192.13.14.1 substituting this

installation instructions correctly, there should be nothing for you to do upon completion but log in and go! 3.2.4. Server modes Some installers ask you to choose between Classic, SuperClassic and SuperServer example, if your server’s IP address in the domain that is visible to your client is 192.13.14.1, go to a command shell on the client machine and type the command ping 192.13.14.1 substituting this simply use those. Once you have verified that the server machine is reachable from the client, you can go on to the next step. 3.4.2. Making sure that the Firebird server is running Most — but not all —

already have an earlier version of Firebird or InterBase® on your server and you think you might want to go back to it, set up your fall-back position before you begin: - Use the existing version of gbak to fdb, using the directions in the chapter entitled “Security” in the Firebird 2.0.x Release Notes. - Go to your System directory and make backup copies of fbclient.dll and/or gds32.dll if you have appli- worry about this if you run an uninstall. However, if you do have problems later this is something to go back and check. • Before installing Firebird 2.1 it is recommended that you uninstall a previous version

Firebird uses a page cache to hold pages in memory. It is much quicker to retrieve pages from RAM than to go out onto the disc system and read them physically each time they are required. The following description where to find the data pages for the tables involved in the application’s transactions. All the pages go into the cache and stay there until the cache is completely full. When there’s no place to put the are changed versus the number of times the pages were written to disk. When you see the disk writes go up, you’ve probably reduced the cache too much. Chapter 2. The Firebird Cache 3 Chapter 3. Using

that contain NULL or may resolve to NULL. If you only need a quick reference to refresh your memory, go to the summary at the end of the guide. So — what is it? In SQL, NULL is not a value. It is a state vast majority of cases the results will be correct. In such a situation those rare NULL cases may go unnoticed for a long time, silently corrupting your data. 9.2. CASE expression Firebird introduced adventure games in this table when you decide to add a non- nullable ID field. There are two ways to go about this, both with their own specific problems. 15.1.1. Adding a NOT NULL field This is by far

To download Firebird from the Internet, first go to the following URL: etc. etc. etc. ...more paragraphs, possibly subsections Sobald der Anker platziert ist, können Sie hierhin verlinken: Go to the interesting spot in that long, long paragraph. Wenn Ihr Link auf ein kurzes Element here I am And there I go! Another row... Und hier ist das

several ways to start and stop the database servers: • Easiest, most powerful and therefore recommended: go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/ibfbcoex/ and get DBServerToggler. This little feller, when started One of these keys should exist, and point to your Firebird install dir. If this is not the case, go to the Firebird bin subdir and execute the following command from there: instreg install "C:\Program

range of: -2 31 .. 2 31 -1 or -2,147,483,648 .. 2,147,483,647 Although the generator itself would go on from 2,147,483,647 to 2,147,483,648 and beyond, the truncated value would wrap around at this point Using generators to create unique row IDs 4.1. Why row IDs at all? The answer to this question would go far beyond the scope of this article. If you see no need to have a generic, unique “handle” for every

corrupted structures. 13.1.2. Full Validation By default, validation works at page level. If no need to go deeper and validate at the record level as well, the command to do this is: Chapter 13. Database about internal database constraints like foreign keys etc, the -⁠mend option simply says to gfix “go ahead and clean out anything you don’t like”. Chapter 13. Database Validation and Recovery 34 Chapter