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We care about security of your data. Privacy Policy. Native Solution. On the File menu, click Connect Object Explorer. The blob id required in the above example is the '' value. Attempting to open the jpeg file with any image viewers will, however, result in an error. The text file opens happily in any of the assorted text viewers or editors installed on the system.
This command is similar to blobdump above, but only requires the blob id parameter as the BLOB data will be displayed in an editor. The contents of the selected BLOB are displayed in an external editor. When the editor is closed, control returns to isql. You cannot use isql while the editor is open. This is a known bug. This command allows you to edit an existing file. This may be a file of SQL commands to be used by the isql input command see below or any other text file.
The file must, however, already exist. If no filename is supplied, a history of all your previous commands will be displayed for editing. Please note that when you exit from the editor in this case, the commands left in the buffer at the end of the edit will be executed as a script file. You may add as many rows as you wish as the command continues until either an error occurs, or the Enter key is pressed with no data.
If you wish to set a column to NULL , type it in exactly as shown. The copy command allows you to copy most of the structure of a table to a new table, in the current database or to a different one. Unfortunately it has a couple of problems:. It shells out to the command line to do the work, and connects to the receiving database using an application named isql.
If, like me, your system has renamed isql to isql-fb , you will actually end up running the wrong isql application and confusing error messages will be the only result. This is very insecure. The data in the table is not copied to the receiving database. If you wish to copy to a different database, then the other database must be on the same server as the current one.
You cannot, for example, connect to a database on a server named tux, and copy a table to a database running on the server tuxrep. The copy command only works provided your isql application is really named isql. In addition, if you have lots of data in the table, you still have to copy it manually as the copy command will only copy the table structure. It is possible that the copy command will be removed from isql at some future release.
This command enables the user to execute a number of commands from a script file rather than manually typing them all into isql at the prompt.
This command redirects all output that normally is displayed on the screen, to a specific file. If a file name is supplied, all subsequent output goes to that file and is not displayed on screen.
If no file name is supplied, output is once more redirected to the screen. There are a number of settings and options that can be changed to suit how you wish isql to operate.
These settings are changed by the set command which is discussed below. This command allows you to temporarily exit from isql and use a shell session to carry out some further processing.
On exiting from the shell, you will return to isql. You cannot use the isql session that activated the shell while the shell session remains open. The show command allows you to view the way that these have been set up by the set commands, or by other options. These are discussed below.
As explained in the help command, you may enter the help set command to drill down into the various options available for the set command.
These are all discussed below. Note that the output from the help set command does not include the set transaction command. The help set command produces the following output from Firebird 4. In the above, the BLOB commands are incomplete. They should be BLOBdisplay. The above is displayed when the set command is executed with no parameters, however, in the following descriptions of the various set commands, we will use the full BLOBdisplay version of the appropriate commands.
The last line of the above output indicates that these commands can be abbreviated to the letters in capitals. Unfortunately, other than the set autoddl command, none of the others appear to have a short form. The set command, without parameters, displays the current settings, as the following example from Firebird 4. This command sets whether all DDL statements executed will be automatically committed or not.
The command without any parameters acts as a toggle and turns autoddl off if it is currently on and vice versa. You may supply a specific parameter to make your intentions clear.
The parameter must be one of on or off. The set command, with no parameters, will display the current setting. The default in isql is equivalent to set autoddl on.
Setting this command determines whether or not isql will "bail out" on any errors when the input command has been used to read a script file. Isql will not exit if it is running in interactive mode, and you cause an error. Executing this command, without passing a parameter, results in a toggling of the current state. If bail is on, it will turn off and vice versa. The blob id is discussed above in the section describing the blobdump and blobview commands. If a number representing the blob sub-type is passed, then only BLOB s with the specififc sub-type will be displayed.
The default is 1 for text sub-types. You will notice in the last example that a message was displayed advising that we are only displaying BLOB data for sub-type 7 and the BLOB data in this table is a sub-type 1, so the data are not displayed.
This command determines whether a line of text is displayed at the end of the output from a DML statement, telling the user how many rows were affected. Setting maxrows to zero, which is the default when isql is started, results in a select statement returning all rows which meet the criteria in the where clause.
There are circumstances where you do not want lots and lots of output scrolling up the screen, so you may set maxrows to a smaller number and all subsequent select statements will only display the first n rows instead of everything.
There is no indication that maxrows is restricting the number of rows returned, it is the responsibility of the user to remember, or check whether maxrows is on or off. Using maxrows can lead to confusion about exactly how many rows there are in a table! The default is on if you do not supply a value. This command causes all the SQL commands being executed to be displayed on the output device prior to their execution.
You may wish to turn echo off as part of a script file although the isql default is for echo to be off. This command can be handy in a script file. If you receive an error, it can sometimes be difficult to determine the exact SQL statement that caused it.
If you set echo on in your script, you will at least be able to determine exactly which statement failed. If plan output is not currently enabled, then set explain on turns the plan output on. This command turns the display of column headings on or off as desired. If no parameter is supplied to the command, it toggles the current state of the heading display. This command controls how the data returned by a select statement will be displayed. The default setting is to display the data in tabular form with optional column headings at the top of each 'page'.
Setting the list mode to on results in a different format where each column heading is displayed on the left and the column data on the right. This repeats for each and every row returned by the query.
As with other commands, not providing a value to the command results in a toggle of the current setting. The default is ON. When set to OFF , isql starts new transactions as usual.
This command defines the character set to be used in subsequent database connections. If the default database character set is not NONE , then in situations where the client uses a different character set to the database, it is possible to suffer from data corruption as some character sets cannot convert some characters to a suitable character in another character set.
This command determines whether isql will display the plan it used to access the data for each statement executed. The isql default is never to display the plan. As with many other commands, not providing a parameter toggles the current state. This command prevents isql from actually executing the SQL statement, and instead simply shows the plan that it would use to access the data. This command relies on the set plan command.
If set plan off had been executed, this command would have no effect, so turning planonly on has the additional effect of executing set plan on implicitly. Executing set planonly off does not implicitly execute set plan off. This is a hidden command which is not mentioned in the output from the help set command. It displays internal details about the SQL statements being executed by isql. This used to be only available in a special debug build, but since version 2. Note that when you run the help set or set commands, no information about this command will be displayed.
This command specifies the Firebird SQL dialect to which the client session is to be changed. If the session is currently attached to a database of a different dialect to the one specified in the command, a warning is displayed. The values permitted are:.
See Dialects for details of the differences between the three dialects. The warning in the above example has had to be split over two lines in order to have it fit on the page.
Normally, it consists of a single line. This command determines whether isql should display various statistics about each SQL command executed. As usual, failing to pass a parameter results in the current setting being toggled.
This command applies to dialect 1 databases only. It causes the time portion to be displayed or not, when the selected data is a column defined with the DATE data type. It has no effect in other dialects. This command changes the default statement terminator from a semi-colon to something else as defined in the passed string.
This is mostly useful when you are about to enter a string of SQL statements making up a procedure, for example, or a trigger. Isql would attempt to execute each statement when it sees a terminating semi-colon, so you would change the terminator first, then enter the required code. When complete, you would change it back, but when doing so, you must remember to terminate the set term command with the current terminating character s. This is not a hidden command which is not mentioned in the output from the help set command because it is a Firebird SQL statement.
There is a default transaction started for you when you use isql. When you commit or rollback in isql, the default transaction ends, and a new default transaction begins. These transactions are:. A full explanation of transactions is beyond the scope of this manual. This command specifies whether warnings are to be output. A few examples for which isql issues warnings are:. In Firebird 1. More recent Firebird versions will raise an exception rather than a warning.
Normally the width of a character column in a table defines the width of the output when that column is selected. Using the set width command allows the user to define a wider or narrower output column width. The second shows the width being reduced to 10 characters. As explained in the help command, there are a number of individual show commands within isql.
The general format of the show commands is:. The object is always required, and the name is required to display details of a specific object. Without a name, the commands will normally display all the objects of the requested type. Unfortunately, unlike the set commands, there is no handy drill down into the various show commands using the help command.
However, if you type show on its own, you will be given a little more assistance. For example, isql of Firebird 4. The show commands are detailed and described below. Where possible, examples from the employee database are shown. This command displays all user-defined check constraints defined for a specific table. Unlike other show commands, there is no option to display a list of all the check constraints in the database.
You must always provide a table name as part of the command. These commands display a list of all the user defined collations in the current database. It is only available from Firebird 2. The first form of the commands display a list of all the collations while a specific collation may be displayed by providing the collation name.
You can see from the output above, which is not part of the employee database, does appear to display all the relevant information in the first form of the command. Some lines in the above have had to be split over two to allow it to fit on the page. This command displays all comments that have been created, on various objects, in the current database.
There is no option to display a specific comment. Each comment is listed along with the object type and name, to which it has been applied. The show database or show db command displays details about the current database. The ODS version, shown in the following examples, is only displayed from Firebird version 2.
No parameters, such as a specific database name, are required and if supplied, will be ignored. The details displayed will always be for the current database. These commands display all dependencies for the specified object name supplied as a parameter. The object name supplied need not necessarily be a table name, it could be a function or procedure name, a sequence name etc.
The output listed is a comma separated list of the other objects in the database upon which the supplied object is dependent. In other words, a procedure would fail to compile if any of the listed dependencies was to be removed, for example. If you display the trigger itself, you will see both of those objects mentioned:. Sometimes, the output can be a little confusing. This command displays domain information. A domain is a user-defined data type, global to the database.
It is used to define the format and range of columns, upon which the actual column definitions in tables are based. Firebird tables are defined by the specification of columns, which store appropriate information in each column using data types.
A data type is an elemental unit when defining data, which specifies the type of data stored in tables, and which operations may be performed on this data. It can also include permissible calculative operations and maximum data size. Examples of data types include: numerical numeric, decimal, integer ;textual char, varchar, nchar, nvarchar ; date date, time, timestamp and blobs binary large objects.
As with many show commands, there are two forms. The first displays a list of all known domains in the database while the second allows you to display the details of a specific domain. This command displays all the exceptions which have been defined in the current database. This command displays a list of all known BLOB filters declared in the current database using the declare filter command. The second form of the command allows the full details of a specific filter to be displayed.
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