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13 Aug 2003 ORDER BY and ROWS in subqueries
ORDER BY and ROWS are not supported in subqueries
Quinn Wildman FAQ
13 Aug 2003 Fetching the top rows descending
It is not possible to order results fetched by ROWS with a SELECT. It is pretty easy to do with a Stored Procedure though.
Quinn Wildman FAQ
13 Jun 2003 InterBase 7.1 DataType to InterClient 4.0 Type mappings
Datatype bindings between InterBase and Java types
Aaron Ruddick TI
27 Mar 2003 Using two databases
You cannot access two databases from the same SQL.
Ben Matterson FAQ
18 Mar 2003 Passing character strings to a UDF in a different character set
CSTRING() uses default character set of database if no character set is specified
Quinn Wildman FAQ
27 Nov 2002 InterBase PLANalyzer 1.1 Released
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.
Craig Stuntz Contributed Article
19 Jul 2002 Mathmatical operations on Time and Timestamp data
Various usefull tips for performing calculations in time and timestamp data
Quinn Wildman TI
12 Jul 2002 Are Tablenames cases sensitive?
InterBase 6 introduces cases sensativity in all metadata using Delimited identifiers
Quinn Wildman FAQ
25 Jun 2002 Renaming a table
How can I rename a table in my database?
Ben Matterson FAQ
25 Jun 2002 Reflecting database changes
Chnages to a database are not always immediately seen by other users.
Ben Matterson FAQ
21 Jun 2002 Creating a primary key when your table has no unique records
Describes a simple technique to add a key regardless of the format of your data
Quinn Wildman FAQ
21 Jun 2002 Arithmetic results different in InterBase 6 and later compared to earlier versions
Dialect 3 treats some numbers using their native format instead of double precision which may cause different results in calculations
Quinn Wildman TI
1 May 2002 READ_COMMITTED tranactions can return inconsistent results.
How InterBase tranactions use the Transaction Information Page to SELECT records.
Ben Matterson FAQ
30 Nov 2001 Error: Unexpected end of command
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 FAQ
24 Oct 2001 Why does using an index make my query take longer?
An explanation of what indexes are and how InterBase uses them.
Ben Matterson TI
11 Jul 2001 Using Stored Procedures with ODBC
2 examples of executing stored procedures, one that returns a result set, and one that returns a variable
Gabe Goldfield FAQ
17 Apr 2001 WHERE clause with greater than 256 ANDs or ORs generates size of optimizer block exceeded error
This error can occur on a SELECT or UPDATE statement
Quinn Wildman FAQ
7 Feb 2001 Default values which do not match the datatype of field cause errors on insert
"arithmetic exception, numeric overflow, or string truncation error" or "conversion error" errors can occur.
Quinn Wildman FAQ
18 Jan 2001 UNIQUE indexes don't allow NULLs
Even if the index is based on multiple fields NULLs are not allowed
Quinn Wildman FAQ
6 Dec 2000 How to insert new lines into external files
Batch Move is the simplest. A simple Delphi example as well.
Quinn Wildman FAQ

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