http://edn.embarcadero.com/en/interbase/sql 2013-05-24T13:08:34-07:00 1 Andrew Merkulov http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/6768.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/37452 2008-01-10T13:11:37-08:00 2008-01-10T13:11:37-08:00

ODBC Escape Sequences are SQL extension for writing SQL queries which will be compatible with many DBMS. The complete guide includes descriptions and samples for 69 scalar functions and 3 escape sequences.

John Kaster http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/119.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/33353 2005-10-06T00:00:00-07:00 2005-10-06T00:00:00-07:00

Listen to the replay of the BDNradio broadcast of 8 hours on InterBase

Quinn Wildman http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/93.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/32981 2005-02-16T00:00:00-08:00 2005-02-16T00:00:00-08:00

RDB$USERS is new system table introduced in InterBase 7.5

Quinn Wildman http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/93.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/32961 2005-02-04T00:00:00-08:00 2005-02-04T00:00:00-08:00

A simple SQL expression to compute an age from a birthday

Quinn Wildman http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/93.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/32962 2005-02-04T00:00:00-08:00 2005-02-04T00:00:00-08:00

All request are converted to BLR. Here you learn how to see the BLR under the covers.

Quinn Wildman http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/93.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/32915 2005-01-13T13:03:45-08:00 2005-01-13T13:03:45-08:00

This error occurs when querying system temporary tables when using InterBase Desktop

Quinn Wildman http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/93.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/32914 2005-01-13T00:00:00-08:00 2005-01-13T00:00:00-08:00

The new TMP$STATE field is not documented in the InterBase 7.5 documentation. It is documented here.

Quinn Wildman http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/93.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/32911 2005-01-12T00:00:00-08:00 2005-01-12T00:00:00-08:00

New fields introduced into the RDB$DATABASE table for InterBase 7.5

Quinn Wildman http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/93.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/32817 2004-12-03T15:22:55-08:00 2004-12-03T15:22:55-08:00

InterBase 7.5 introduces the 2 new system temporary tables, TMP$HEAPS and TMP$TRIGGERS.

Quinn Wildman http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/93.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/32818 2004-12-03T00:00:00-08:00 2004-12-03T00:00:00-08:00

The RDB$FORMAT field in the RDB$RELATIONS table contains the number of metadata changes

Quinn Wildman http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/93.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/32814 2004-12-02T00:00:00-08:00 2004-12-02T00:00:00-08:00

A small new feature of InterBase 7.5 that is not documented

Quinn Wildman http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/93.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/32815 2004-12-02T00:00:00-08:00 2004-12-02T00:00:00-08:00

A listof just the new keywords introduced in InterBase 7.5.

Quinn Wildman http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/93.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/32816 2004-12-02T00:00:00-08:00 2004-12-02T00:00:00-08:00

CREATE GLOBAL TEMPORARY TABLE is not documented in the Language Reference

Quinn Wildman http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/1593.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/32784 2004-11-18T00:00:00-08:00 2004-11-18T00:00:00-08:00

The data type of all expressions passed to COALESCE must be the same

Quinn Wildman http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/1593.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/32767 2004-11-11T00:00:00-08:00 2004-11-11T00:00:00-08:00

Invalid plans in Stored Procedures did not report errors in the past

Quinn Wildman http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/93.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/32762 2004-11-03T00:00:00-07:00 2004-11-03T00:00:00-07:00

This acticle provides a list of SQL not currently supported by Embedded SQL

Craig Stuntz http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/2023.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/32076 2004-06-17T14:51:19-07:00 2004-06-17T14:51:19-07:00

When writing a WHERE clause in your InterBase SQL, it would sometimes be convenient to write WHERE FOO IN (:SomeParam) and pass a list of values to SomeParam. You can't do that; here's why.

Quinn Wildman http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/93.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/32392 2004-06-03T00:00:00-07:00 2004-06-03T00:00:00-07:00

A short and simple selectable stored procedure that returns all dates in a range

Quinn Wildman http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/93.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/32381 2004-05-28T00:00:00-07:00 2004-05-28T00:00:00-07:00

A short stored procedure to add a year to a date

Quinn Wildman http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/93.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/32336 2004-05-06T00:00:00-07:00 2004-05-06T00:00:00-07:00

A Stored Procedure can used to remove nonnumerics from a string

Quinn Wildman http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/93.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/30296 2003-08-13T08:43:36-07:00 2003-08-13T08:43:36-07:00

ORDER BY and ROWS are not supported in subqueries

Quinn Wildman http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/93.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/30297 2003-08-13T00:00:00-07:00 2003-08-13T00:00:00-07:00

It is not possible to order results fetched by ROWS with a SELECT. It is pretty easy to do with a Stored Procedure though.

Aaron Ruddick http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/542.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/30104 2003-06-13T00:00:00-07:00 2003-06-13T00:00:00-07:00

Datatype bindings between InterBase and Java types

Ben Matterson http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/506.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/29867 2003-03-27T14:03:57-07:00 2003-03-27T14:03:57-07:00

You cannot access two databases from the same SQL.

Quinn Wildman http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/93.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/29842 2003-03-18T00:00:00-07:00 2003-03-18T00:00:00-07:00

CSTRING() uses default character set of database if no character set is specified

Craig Stuntz http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/2023.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/29270 2002-11-27T12:31:59-08:00 2002-11-27T12:31:59-08:00

InterBase PLANalyzer is a free tool to optimize IB SQL and metadata. Version 1.1 adds support for IB 5.6-7, query cancellation, syntax highlighting, and more.

Quinn Wildman http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/93.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/28886 2002-07-19T00:00:00-07:00 2002-07-19T00:00:00-07:00

Various usefull tips for performing calculations in time and timestamp data

Quinn Wildman http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/93.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/28860 2002-07-12T00:00:00-07:00 2002-07-12T00:00:00-07:00

InterBase 6 introduces cases sensativity in all metadata using Delimited identifiers

Ben Matterson http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/506.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/28795 2002-06-25T10:14:25-07:00 2002-06-25T10:14:25-07:00

How can I rename a table in my database?

Ben Matterson http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/506.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/28794 2002-06-25T09:44:34-07:00 2002-06-25T09:44:34-07:00

Chnages to a database are not always immediately seen by other users.

Quinn Wildman http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/93.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/28785 2002-06-21T00:00:00-07:00 2002-06-21T00:00:00-07:00

Describes a simple technique to add a key regardless of the format of your data

Quinn Wildman http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/93.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/28786 2002-06-21T00:00:00-07:00 2002-06-21T00:00:00-07:00

Dialect 3 treats some numbers using their native format instead of double precision which may cause different results in calculations

Ben Matterson http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/506.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/28656 2002-05-01T14:46:51-07:00 2002-05-01T14:46:51-07:00

How InterBase tranactions use the Transaction Information Page to SELECT records.

Ben Matterson http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/506.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/28062 2001-11-30T00:00:00-08:00 2001-11-30T00:00:00-08:00

Entering a trigger or procedure results in an error due to terminator symbol conflict between the SQL parser and the trigger and procedure language.

Ben Matterson http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/506.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/27919 2001-10-24T10:25:49-07:00 2001-10-24T10:25:49-07:00

An explanation of what indexes are and how InterBase uses them.

Gabe Goldfield http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/592.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/27510 2001-07-11T00:00:00-07:00 2001-07-11T00:00:00-07:00

2 examples of executing stored procedures, one that returns a result set, and one that returns a variable

Quinn Wildman http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/93.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/27227 2001-04-17T16:06:55-07:00 2001-04-17T16:06:55-07:00

This error can occur on a SELECT or UPDATE statement

Quinn Wildman http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/93.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/26813 2001-02-07T00:00:00-08:00 2001-02-07T00:00:00-08:00

"arithmetic exception, numeric overflow, or string truncation error" or "conversion error" errors can occur.

Quinn Wildman http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/93.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/26665 2001-01-18T00:00:00-08:00 2001-01-18T00:00:00-08:00

Even if the index is based on multiple fields NULLs are not allowed

Quinn Wildman http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/93.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/26393 2000-12-06T00:00:00-08:00 2000-12-06T00:00:00-08:00

Batch Move is the simplest. A simple Delphi example as well.

Kendall Sullivan http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/515.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/26179 2000-10-31T00:00:00-07:00 2000-10-31T00:00:00-07:00

This article describes a work around to this error when using Interbase and stored procedures.

Borland Staff http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/46.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/25921 2000-09-26T00:00:00-07:00 2000-09-26T00:00:00-07:00

This paper discusses how to setup security for user validation and database privileges to maintain security for your database.

Borland Staff http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/46.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/25099 2000-07-24T00:00:00-07:00 2000-07-24T00:00:00-07:00

Describes how to create a view has a UNION using GPRE

Borland Staff http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/46.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/25104 2000-07-24T00:00:00-07:00 2000-07-24T00:00:00-07:00

It can be accomplished using a stored provedure

Borland Staff http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/46.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/25105 2000-07-24T00:00:00-07:00 2000-07-24T00:00:00-07:00

A chart that lists the operators supported in InterBase and their order of precedence:

Borland Staff http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/46.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/25106 2000-07-24T00:00:00-07:00 2000-07-24T00:00:00-07:00

Resolved in Interbase 5.x

Borland Staff http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/46.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/25117 2000-07-24T00:00:00-07:00 2000-07-24T00:00:00-07:00

This is a problem with the implementation of views, fixed in Interbase 5.0

Borland Staff http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/46.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/25133 2000-07-24T00:00:00-07:00 2000-07-24T00:00:00-07:00

The best way to round a double precision number is to write a UDF to do the rounding

Borland Staff http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/46.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/25142 2000-07-24T00:00:00-07:00 2000-07-24T00:00:00-07:00

Example for UNIX

Borland Staff http://gp.codegear.com/authors/edit/46.aspx http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/25154 2000-07-24T00:00:00-07:00 2000-07-24T00:00:00-07:00

Calling Cast can resolve the problem