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Firebird 2.1 Release Notes Authentication .................................................................................................................... 122 gsec in Firebird 2 ............................................................................................................... 123 Protection from Brute-force Hacking ................................................................................... 123 Using Windows Security to Authenticate Users ........................................................................... 123 SQL Privileges ................................................................................................................... 124 Administrators .................................................................................................................... 124 Configuration Parameter “Authentication” ........................................................................... 124 Forcing Trusted Authentication ........................................................................................... 125 Classic Server on POSIX ............................................................................................................ 125 For Any Platform ....................................................................................................................... 126 Other Security Improvements ...................................................................................................... 126 isc_service_query() wrongly revealed the full database file spec ............................................ 126 Any user could view the server log through the Services API ................................................ 126 Dealing with the New Security Database ..................................................................................... 126 Doing the Security Database Upgrade ................................................................................. 127 13. Command-line Utilities ................................................................................................................. 129 General Enhancements ................................................................................................................ 129 Utilities Support for Database Triggers ................................................................................ 129 Password Hiding ................................................................................................................ 129 Firebird Services ........................................................................................................................ 129 New Command-line Utility fbsvcmgr .................................................................................. 129 Backup Tools ............................................................................................................................. 133 New On-line Incremental Backup ........................................................................................ 133 gbak Backup/Porting/Restore Utility .................................................................................... 135 ISQL Query Utility .................................................................................................................... 136 New Switches .................................................................................................................... 137 New Commands and Enhancements .................................................................................... 139 gsec Authentication Manager ...................................................................................................... 142 gsec return code ................................................................................................................. 142 gfix Server Utility ...................................................................................................................... 142 New Shutdown States (Modes) ........................................................................................... 142 Builds and Installs ...................................................................................................................... 143 Parameter for Instance name added to instsvc.exe ................................................................ 143 Revised Win32 Installer Docs ............................................................................................. 143 Gentoo/FreeBSD detection during install ............................................................................. 144 14. External Functions (UDFs) ............................................................................................................ 145 Ability to Signal SQL NULL via a Null Pointer .......................................................................... 145 UDF library diagnostic messages improved ................................................................................. 146 UDFs Added and Changed ......................................................................................................... 146 IB_UDF_rand() vs IB_UDF_srand() .................................................................................... 146 IB_UDF_lower ................................................................................................................... 147 General UDF Changes ................................................................................................................ 147 Build Changes .................................................................................................................... 147 15. New Configuration Parameters and Changes .................................................................................. 148 Authentication ............................................................................................................................ 148 RelaxedAliasChecking ................................................................................................................ 148 MaxFileSystemCache ................................................................................................................. 149 DatabaseGrowthIncrement .......................................................................................................... 149 ExternalFileAccess ..................................................................................................................... 150 LegacyHash ............................................................................................................................... 150 Redirection ................................................................................................................................. 150 About Multi-hop ................................................................................................................. 150 viii
Firebird 2.1 Release Notes GCPolicy ................................................................................................................................... 151 OldColumnNaming ..................................................................................................................... 151 UsePriorityScheduler .................................................................................................................. 151 TCPNoNagle has changed .......................................................................................................... 151 IPCName Behaviour Has Changed .............................................................................................. 151 Renamed Parameters .................................................................................................................. 152 SortMemBlockSize Changed to TempCacheBlockSize ......................................................... 152 SortMemUpperLimit Changed to TempCacheUpperLimit ..................................................... 152 Removed or Deprecated Parameters ............................................................................................ 152 CreateInternalWindow ........................................................................................................ 152 DeadThreadsCollection is no longer used ............................................................................ 152 16. Firebird 2 Project Teams ............................................................................................................... 153 Appendix A: New Built-in Functions .................................................................................................. 155 Appendix B: International Character Sets ............................................................................................ 166 New Character Sets and Collations Implemented ......................................................................... 166 Narrow Character Sets ................................................................................................................ 167 ICU Character Sets ..................................................................................................................... 167 Appendix C: Security Database Upgrade for Firebird 2 ........................................................................ 173 Security Upgrade Script .............................................................................................................. 173 ix
Page 1 and 2: Firebird 2.1 Release Notes Helen Bo
Page 4 and 5: Table of Contents 1. General Notes
Page 6 and 7: Firebird 2.1 Release Notes REVOKE A
Page 10 and 11: List of Tables 16.1. Firebird Devel
Page 12 and 13: Additions in this Sub-release Gener
Page 14 and 15: General Notes • Dmitry has addres
Page 16 and 17: Chapter 2 New in Firebird 2 New Fea
Page 18 and 19: Procedural SQL New in Firebird 2 Do
Page 20 and 21: Derived Tables A. Brinkman New in F
Page 22 and 23: New in Firebird 2 • background -
Page 24 and 25: New in Firebird 2 From Firebird 1.0
Page 26 and 27: Important New in Firebird 2 The com
Page 28 and 29: Changes to the Firebird API and ODS
Page 30 and 31: isc_info_tra_isolation Changes to t
Page 32 and 33: Changes to the Firebird API and ODS
Page 34 and 35: Chapter 4 Global Improvements in Fi
Page 36 and 37: Global Improvements in Firebird 2.1
Page 38 and 39: Note Global Improvements in Firebir
Page 40 and 41: 2. File fragmentation Global Improv
Page 42 and 43: Global Improvements in Firebird 2.1
Page 44 and 45: Chapter 5 Data Definition Language
Page 46 and 47: Utilities Support for Database Trig
Page 48 and 49: Use Column Aliases in CREATE VIEW F
Page 50 and 51: 2. Data Definition Language (DDL) A
Page 52 and 53: SEQUENCE INDEX ROLE CHARACTER SET C
Page 54 and 55: Data Definition Language (DDL) SQL>
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Data Manipulation Language (DML) )
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Format Data Manipulation Language (
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3. 4. RETURNING ID INTO :PK; DELETE
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Example Data Manipulation Language
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[RETURNING ] Data Manipulation Lang
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Enhancements to Functions A. dos Sa
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CAST(x as ) A. dos Santos Fernandes
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Data Manipulation Language (DML) bu
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Data Manipulation Language (DML) BE
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ROLLBACK RETAIN Syntax D. Yemanov D
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Data Manipulation Language (DML) ii
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Database: proc.fdb SQL> create tabl
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Data Manipulation Language (DML) CU
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Data Manipulation Language (DML)
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::= NATURAL Data Manipulation Lang
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Example Data Manipulation Language
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::= '(' ')' Conclusions Data Manip
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Chapter 7 Procedural SQL (PSQL) A h
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... END Procedural SQL (PSQL) Conte
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Procedural SQL (PSQL) Arguments wit
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LEAVE [] Procedural SQL (PSQL) wher
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IF (NEW.ID = 3) THEN EXECUTE PROCED
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Chapter 8 New Reserved Words and Ch
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SQRT (v.2.1)
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For All Databases Indexing & Optimi
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Indexing & Optimizations Matching o
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Indexing & Optimizations Selectivit
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Well-formedness checks Internationa
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collation ES_ES collation PT_BR col
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intl_module fbintl collation NAME [
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Format: DISABLE-EXPANSIONS={0 | 1}
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Create the procedures in the databa
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Administrative Features • Regular
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Administrative Features MON$AUTO_UN
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Administrative Features SELECT MON$
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Administrative Features Any process
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Chapter 12 Security In this chapter
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Security • the lack of protection
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Security Simply omitting the user a
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Security The main reason to restric
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Caution with LegacyHash Security As
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Command-line Utilities the Services
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Command-line Utilities Undocumented
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NBackup The functional responsibili
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Command-line Utilities is a separat
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Command-line Utilities • Even if
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Command-line Utilities Therefore, p
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Command-line Utilities -t(erminator
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Help on command line switches Featu
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External Functions (UDFs) If you ar
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Chapter 15 A. Peshkov New Configura
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A. Peshkov Note New Configuration P
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New Configuration Parameters and Ch
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Firebird 2 Project Teams Developer
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New Built-in Functions Function For
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Appendix B: International Character
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International Character Sets UTF-7
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International Character Sets ibm-86
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International Character Sets ibm-11
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