Tecnico computo

Release Notes
InterBase 6.0 Field Test November 1999

Borland/INPRISE
100 Enterprise Way, Scotts Valley, CA 95066 http://www.interbase.com

Inprise/Borland may have patents and/or pending patent applications covering subject matter in this document. The furnishing of this document does not convey any license to these patents. Copyright 1999 Inprise/Borland. All rights reserved. AllInterBase products are trademarks or registered trademarks of Inprise/Borland. All Borland products are trademarks or registered trademarks of Inprise/Borland. Other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1 General Information General Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 ContactingInprise/Borland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 The InterBase install directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Uninstalling InterBase 6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 InterBase documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Documentation in PDF form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Full-text searching .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Links. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Installing Acrobat Reader With Search . . . . . . . . . . . 8 System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 CHAPTER 2 New InterBase 6 Features Feature overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Feature description . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 IBConsole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Dialects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 SQL delimited identifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 InterBase Express for Delphi users . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Large exact numerics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 SQL DATE, TIME, and TIMESTAMP .. . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Changing column and domain definitions . . . . . . . . . 28 Read-only databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 New keywords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Status vector and warning messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 New gbak functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Services API. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 33 Install API. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Licensing API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 InterBase Client for UNIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

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New On-Disk Structure (ODS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 New error messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Running InterBase 6 as anapplication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Compiling and linking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Known bugs and workarounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

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This chapter covers the following topics:
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Contacting Inprise/Borland The install directory System requirements Documentation and Adobe AcrobatReader System requirements See Getting Started for installation instructions and detailed information about migrating existing databases and applications.

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CHAPTER 1 GENERAL INFORMATION

General Information
This section includes information on contacting Inprise/Borland, as well as notes about installing and uninstalling InterBase.

Contacting Inprise/Borland
"Mailing address
Inprise/Borland 100 Enterprise Way Scotts Valley, CA 95066-3249 Phone: 1-888-345-2015 or (831) 431-6500 Fax: (831) 431-6510 Inprise/Borland maintains an Internet site on the world-wide web. The URL of this site is: http://www.borland.com/ This site has product information, tools for download, technical knowledge base, and hosts a community of InterBase partners and VARs. As with...