Interbase Documentation.
Here you will find some news, explanations, FAQs and general documentation about Interbase. This is a work in progress.
General documentation.
- Practical limits.
- Glossary.
- Transaction options explanation.
- Declarative referential integrity v/s triggers.
- Interbase internals overview.
- How the optimizer works, an overview.
- ODS compatibility and server versions.
- What's in the InterBase/bin directory?
- How DDL works.
- High level comparison of IB6 v/s MsSql7 features.
- Cache settings priority.
- Extracting metadata from IB, overview.
- Using descriptors with UDFs.
Tips and tricks.
- The mystery of rdb$db_key.
- Practical Use of the RDB$DB_KEY.
- Date/time functions in rdb$database?
- Computed fields with conditional statements.
- How to avoid the infinite recursive insertion.
- Undocumented connection path on Win32.