[fpc-pascal] Looking for a Firebird book?

Damien Gerard milipili at shikami.org
Wed Apr 9 10:57:37 CEST 2008


Le Apr 9, 2008 à 10:47 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys a écrit :
> On 09/04/2008, Damien Gerard <milipili at shikami.org> wrote:
>>
>> Does their documentation not suitable to you ?
>>
>> From MSSQL To Firefird
>> http://www.firebirdsql.org/manual/migration-mssql.html
>
> I did find that, but it doesn't cover security access from
> applications to Firebird.
>
> eg:
> * MSSQL has server access, database access and table access.
> * Firebird has roles, which I'm trying to figure out now, but it's
> still hard to find good information. From what I can see is that if
> you have a username and password to the firebird server, you can
> access all connected databases! Weird? Our applications use login
> prompts at startup. At the moment we simply hard-code a firebird
> username and password in the application to create the connection,
> then access our own 'users' table to manage access to our application.
> Is that how everybody else does it with Firebird?

If I remember well (of an old time), each database uses its own file.  
But it may have changed since.

You should read this :
http://www.firebirdsql.org/manual/qsg2-config.html

and this :

http://www.firebirdfaq.org/cat7/

May be it could help



>
>> Books
>> http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&page=ibp_publications
>
> Thanks, I only found that link a little while ago.
>
>
> Regards,
>  - Graeme -
>
>
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