The Firebird Book: A Guide for Database Developers is a comprehensive, practical guide for developing client/server FirebirdSQL database applications for small and large networks of users. FirebirdSQL is an open source database, and while not as popular as MySQL or PostgreSQL, it has a dedicated following, and has far more advanced features.
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Helen Borrie is a database and application developer, a member of the Firebird project team, and a former journalist who doubles as a technical writer. She is a frequent contributor to support lists for Firebird, InterBase, and Delphi database programming.
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What A Great Book on Firebird!,
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This review is from: The Firebird Book: A Reference for Database Developers (Paperback)
I took The Firebird Book with me to lunch figuring I'd thumb through the TOC and browse a few of the pages. Nearly two hours later, I realized I'd gone well past my planned lunch time.
What a great book! I used InterBase for years and have been using Firebird since v1.0, but I've hardly begun to exploit a fraction of its features. I guess that's perhaps the best praise for InterBase/Firebird - you can just install it and begin using it without having to become an expert on it first. Honestly, the single most important thing I learned from the book so far is this: Wow! Have I been taking for granted just how great a product Firebird is! Any companies still insisting on paying $5,000+ for a great database management system can just send me a check for $5,000 and I'll send you a copy of Firebird and this excellent book. Everyone else should just buy this book and download the totally free Firebird. (I downloaded my copy from http://www.ibphoenix.com) I really appreciate the author pulling together so much information into one hefty volume and presenting it in such an understandable way. Also, my sincere thanks go out to all the original InterBase, and now Firebird, contributors for giving the little guy a really big database management system. This book is truly a pleasure to read and will serve as a primary reference for a long time to come.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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keep your productivity if you migrate,
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This review is from: The Firebird Book: A Reference for Database Developers (Paperback)
In the field of open source, there are only a few major relational databases - MySQL, Postgres and Firebird. MySQL has been garnering prominent wins recently, whereas Firebird has been steadily chugging along with relatively little publicity. But the book shows that if you are considering a free database, you should seriously look at Firebird. The book describes a very highly fleshed out database, that supports much standard SQL querying. Plus Firebird has had stored procedures and foreign keys for some time. The book goes into detail on these. Whereas MySQL has only its latest version incorporating them. Not as mature as Firebird's.
The core of the book is its Part 5, with several chapters talking about Firebird's SQL variant. The good news is that you should recognise much of it already. Much of your previous SQL experience should carry over to Firebird. Preserves your productivity if you migrate.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Well-Written, Comprehensive, the Reason I Now Use Firebird RDBMS,
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This review is from: The Firebird Book: A Reference for Database Developers (Paperback)
This book is very well crafted. It is organized and thorough. With this book, the Interbase 6.0 manuals (available free on-line in PDF) and the Firebird software, you can create and maintain high performance, industrial software for use in production in environments of any size. I can not reccommend this book highly enough. If you need a database for your next project, you owe it to yourself to try out Firebird SQL. Use Ms. Borrie's book as a guide.
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optimization topic, lock print, limbo transactions, new record version, using gbak, gbak backup, firebird root, isgl session, embedded server applications, selectable stored procedures, database header page, average data length, gbak utility, database aliasing, max dup, using isgl, deadlock scan, embedded server library, from rdb, defaulted column, external code modules, index root page, selectable procedures, system root privileges, latest committed version Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Program Files, Embedded Server, Forced Writes, Querying Multiple Tables, Named Pipes, Housekeeping Tool, Firebird Superserver, Service Manager, Joe Celko, Firebird Classic, Error Messages, Claudio Valderrama, Control Panel, Ann Harrison, Database-Level Security, Character Types, Configuring Transactions, Overview of Firebird Transactions, Morgan Kaufmann, Firebird Clients, Firebird Guardian, Schema Scripts, Microsoft Windows, Operating Basics, Firebird Programming Browse Sample Pages:
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optimization topic, lock print, limbo transactions, new record version, using gbak, gbak backup, firebird root, isgl session, embedded server applications, selectable stored procedures, database header page, average data length, gbak utility, database aliasing, max dup, using isgl, deadlock scan, embedded server library, from rdb, defaulted column, external code modules, index root page, selectable procedures, system root privileges, latest committed version Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Program Files, Embedded Server, Forced Writes, Querying Multiple Tables, Named Pipes, Housekeeping Tool, Firebird Superserver, Service Manager, Joe Celko, Firebird Classic, Error Messages, Claudio Valderrama, Control Panel, Ann Harrison, Database-Level Security, Character Types, Configuring Transactions, Overview of Firebird Transactions, Morgan Kaufmann, Firebird Clients, Firebird Guardian, Schema Scripts, Microsoft Windows, Operating Basics, Firebird Programming Browse Sample Pages:
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