Firebird Interactive SQL Utility Kamala Vadlamani, Paul Vinkenoog, Norman Dunbar, Mark Rotteveel Version 1.0, 24 December 2021 Table of Contents 1. Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Contents 3 Chapter 1. Introduction This manual provides reference material for the Firebird Interactive SQL Utility (isql), and instructions on how to use it to perform tasks within the database.  located in the bin directory of the Firebird installation. It provides a command line interface for interactive access to a Firebird database. It accepts DSQL statements along with a group of SET and SHOW commands

toujours basculer d'une architecture à l'autre plus tard; vos applications et vos bases fonctionneront toujours (sauf si vos applications font appels à certaines fonctionnalités des Services Manager encore ...) Client Firebird fbclient.dll (avec en option gds32. dll, pour utiliser les an- ciennes applications) \bin (avec en option une copie dans Windows System – voir la note en bas de ta- fonctionnalités. Serveurs Posix Utilisez la commande top dans un shell pour inspecter de manière interactive les processus en exécution. Si un Firebird Superserver est en cours d'exécution, vous devriez voir

Longer Works ................................................................................ 10 Interactive Option Added to instsvc.exe .................................................................. ........................................................................ 30 Supporting legacy applications and drivers ............................................................................ 30 Special SYSDBA-only operations. This loophole has been closed, a change that could affect several existing applications, database tools and connectivity layers (drivers, components). Details are in Chapter 3 of the

performance difference. Note that you can always switch to the other architecture later; your applications and databases will keep func- tioning like before. For Linux, Superserver download packages start /usr/lib/libfbclient.so ...replacing 2.m.n with your version number, e.g. 2.0.0 or 2.1.0 If you're running applications that expect the legacy libraries to be present, also create the following sym- links: ln -s “insecure” behaviour inherited from InterBase and Firebird 1.0, in order not to break existing applications. It pays to familiarise yourself with Firebird's security-related configuration parameters. You

performance differ- ence. Besides, you can always switch to the other architecture later; your applications and databases will keep functioning (except if they call the Services Manager and you switch to You can now continue to play about with the employee.gdb database. The characters isql stand for interactive SQL [utility]. You can use it for querying data, getting information about the metadata, creating command prompt type SQL>QUIT;# For more information about isql, see Using Firebird, Chapter 10: Interactive SQL Utility (isql). Using a GUI client GUI client tools usually take charge of composing the

manual to cover all aspects of the query language used by developers to communicate, through their applications, with the Firebird relational database management system. 1.1. Subject The subject of this implementation are: • Dynamic SQL (DSQL) • Procedural SQL (PSQL) • Embedded SQL (ESQL) • Interactive SQL (ISQL) Dynamic SQL is the major part of the language which corresponds to the Part 2 (SQL/Foundation) (SQL/Foundation) part of the SQL specification. DSQL represents statements passed by client applications through the public Firebird API and processed by the database engine. Procedural SQL augments Dynamic

manual to cover all aspects of the query language used by developers to communicate, through their applications, with the Firebird relational database management system. It has a long history. 1.1. Subject implementation are: • Dynamic SQL (DSQL) • Procedural SQL (PSQL) • Embedded SQL (ESQL) • Interactive SQL (ISQL) Dynamic SQL is the major part of the language which corresponds to the Part 2 (SQL/Foundation) (SQL/Foundation) part of the SQL specification. DSQL represents statements passed by client applications through the public Firebird API and processed by the database engine. Procedural SQL augments Dynamic

/usr/lib/libfbclient.so ...replacing 5.0.n with your version number, e.g. 5.0.0 or 5.0.1 If you’re running applications that expect the legacy libraries to be present, also create the following symlinks: Chapter a text-mode client named isql (Interactive SQL utility). You can use it in several ways to connect to a database. One of them, shown below, is to start it in interactive mode. Go to the directory where

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 4. Interactive Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 7.2. Differences Between Batch And Interactive Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 7.3. Batch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 7.4. Errors In Batch Mode Swap To Interactive Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 7.5. Potential

User: sysdba SQL> Теперь Вы можете продолжить эксперименты с базой employee.fdb. isql означает interactive SQL [utility] (интерактивный SQL). Вы можете использовать её для извлечения данных, получения метаин- SQL>QUIT;￿ За дополнительной информацией об использовании isql обращайтесь к Using Firebird, глава 10: Interactive SQL Utility (isql). Используем графические утилиты Обычно, графические средства самостоятельно наберите SQL>QUIT;￿ За дополнительной информацией об isql обращайтесь к главе 10 Using Firebird: Interactive SQL Utility (isql). Firebird SQL Каждая систем управления базами данных имеет свои отличительные