[fpc-pascal] Looking for a Firebird book?

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Fri Apr 11 11:14:23 CEST 2008



On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Tom York wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 5:53 AM, Codebue Fabio - P-Soft <f.codebue at p-soft.biz>
> wrote:
> 
> > Take a look to a new Firebird 2.1 next month and probably you will change
> > your idea about it...
> > UDF: FreeAdHocUDF, a lot of internal SQL function...
> > and if you wanna a good book www.ibphoenix.com Helen Borrie book... a
> > MUST!
> >
> >
> Will 2.1 have a true auto increment attribute?  A boolean field perhaps?
> Those are the only things that I miss when using FB.  I am aware that all of
> these issues can be resolved by using generators/triggers and a validating
> domain.  That is what I like about MySQL, MSSQL and others that are missing
> from FB.

And it is exactly why I can't use MySQL, MSSQL: they don't have sequences or
generators. I need the ID  BEFORE I insert the record, not after.

So: Each his taste :-)

Michael.



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