
- •Firebird 1.5 Quick Start Guide
- •Table of Contents
- •About this guide
- •What is in the kit?
- •Classic or Superserver?
- •Default disk locations
- •Installing Firebird
- •Installing the Firebird server
- •Installation drives
- •Installation script or program
- •Windows platforms
- •Posix platforms
- •Testing your installation
- •Pinging the server
- •Checking that the Firebird server is running
- •Windows NT4, 2000 and XP
- •Windows 9x or ME
- •Windows Control Panel applets
- •Posix servers
- •Other things you need
- •A network address for the server
- •Default user name and password
- •How to change the SYSDBA password
- •An Admin tool
- •Performing a client-only install
- •Windows
- •Linux and some other Posix clients
- •Working with databases
- •Connecting to the sample database
- •Server name and path
- •The CONNECT statement
- •Using isql
- •Using a GUI client
- •Creating a database using isql
- •Starting isql
- •The CREATE DATABASE statement
- •Firebird SQL
- •Division of an integer by an integer
- •Things to know about strings
- •String delimiter symbol
- •Apostrophes in strings
- •Concatenation of strings
- •Double-quoted identifiers
- •Expressions involving NULL
- •More about NULLs
- •Safety measures
- •Security options on the server
- •Backup
- •How to corrupt a database
- •Modifying metadata tables yourself
- •Disabling forced writes on Windows
- •Disabling Forced Writes on a Linux server
- •Restoring a backup to a running database
- •Allowing users to log in during a restore
- •How to get help
- •The Firebird Project
- •Alphabetical index

Alphabetical index
A
Admin tools, 13
Aliasing, 20
Apostrophes in strings, 18
B
Backup, 21
Books
The Firebird Book, 23
C
Checking the server, 8 Classic Server, 3 CONNECT statement, 15 Connecting, 14
Control Panel applets, 10
CREATE DATABASE statement, 16
D
Databases aliases, 20
backup and restore, 21 , 22 , 23 connecting, 14
with a GUI clientl, 16 with isql, 15
corruption, 21 creating with isql, 16 example database, 14 metadata, 21 security, 20
system tables, 21 Disk locations, 5 Document history, 25 Documentation, 23
Double-quoted identifiers, 18
E
Example database, 14
F
Firebird Book, 23
Firebird project, 23
Firebird SQL, 17
Forced writes, 22
G
gsec, 11
Guardian, 7 , 9 , 9 , 10
H
Help, 23
I
Installation, 6
Classic or Superserver, 3 client-only, 13
drives, 6
kit contents, 3 script or program, 7 server, 6
Integer division, 17 isql
connecting to a database, 15 creating a database, 16
L
License notice, 26
N
Network address, 11
NULL, 19
P
Passwords
changing, 11
default, 11
Ping, 8
Project, 23
R
Restore, 21
to a running database, 22 user logins during restore, 23
S
Sample database, 14 Security, 20
Server name and path, 14 Services (Windows), 9 SQL, 17
CONNECT statement, 15
CREATE DATABASE statement, 16 Strings
apostrophes in stringsl, 18 concatenation, 18 delimiter symbol, 18
Superserver, 3
SYSDBA, 11 System tables, 21
T
Testing, 8
top command (Linux), 10
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Alphabetical index
U
User names default, 11
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