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The Firebird Book: a Reference for Database DevelopersBy Helen Borrie
She has now written a Firebird 2.0 and 2.1 Supplement for the book which we have published in electronic format. If you buy (or bought) your copy of "The Firebird Book" from us, you will receive the supplement free. To order a copy of the book or the supplement, follow the link to the IBPhoenix Shop (below) and place your order on-line. Note that we will have to add an additional amount to the book's price to cover postage and packing. The book weighs 2Kg boxed and the amount varies depending where in the world you live. For example if you live outside Europe we will add £20.00 (total £74.49) to cover postage and packing costs, whilst if you live in Europe we will add £15.00 (total £69.99) to cover postage and packing costs. Buying this book directly from IBPhoenix rather than from Amazon, etc., benefits the Firebird project, as money made on sales is used to fund further development of Firebird. You cannot buy the Firebird Supplement anywhere else. Order The Firebird Book or the Firebird Supplement Apress have made "The Firebird Book" (without the Supplement) available as an eBook. You can buy it on-line from Apress directly. ERRATA
The Firebird Book
DescriptionThis is the first official book on Firebird, the free, independent, open source relational database server that sprang forth when Borland's InterBase 6.0 sources were opened in 2000. Written from within the Firebird Project itself, the book provides newcomers and experienced hands alike with the best of everything they need to know about Firebird database development, from technical details like installation and configuration on a variety of platforms to SQL language, techniques, interfaces and maintenance. The Firebird Book: A Reference for Database Developers is a comprehensive, practical guide to building highly stable, scalable relational database back-ends for small and large client/server networks. It is liberally sprinkled with tips, code examples that work and explanations that make sense. Coverage focuses on current release V1.5 with its plethora of new language, security and optimization features, without neglecting the needs of Firebird 1.0 users. Although less widely publicized than some other open source database management systems, Firebird has accrued a following of dedicated and demanding professional users numbering well into the hundreds of thousands world wide in its three-year history in open source. The Firebird 2 Supplement for The Firebird Book
DescriptionThe Supplement follows the format and layout of the original book, to make it easy to print out sections and insert them into your hard copy of the main book. Where applicable, the Errata for the main book are appended to the respective Supplement chapter. They can be printed out as lone pages if you wish to tape the Errata to the applicable pages. Icons are used throughout to draw your attention to Firebird 2 changes and features that might affect your legacy databases and applications when migrating. In appropriate places, page references to the main book are given as a reference to background information. Appendix X (Error Codes) and Appendix XI (Reserved Words) have both been completely updated so that you have a complete on-hand reference to these sets. New character sets and collations appear in Appendix VIII. Updates to the Supplement will appear periodically, as Firebird 2.x progresses through the planned sub-releases, for free download by rightful holders of a preceding version, so keep your proof of purchase. Order The Firebird Book or the Firebird 2 Supplement About the AuthorHelen Borrie is a database and application developer, a member of the Firebird project team, IBPhoenix 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. |
Some of you who read the lists regularly may be aware that Helen wrote "The Firebird
Book", the first book about Firebird (or InterBase for that matter) to be published in the
English language.
