The Firebird Book

- From the contents: Introduction to Firebird
Part I: Firebird Boot Camp: 1: Installation
- 2: Network Setup
- 3: Configuring Firebird
- 4: Operating Basics
Part II: Understanding Client/Server: 5: Introduction to Client/Server Architecture
- 6: Firebird Server
- 7: Firebird Clients
Part III: Data Types and Domains: 8: About Firebird Data Types
- 9: Number Types
- 10: Date and Time Types
- 11: Character Types, BLOBs, Arrays
- 12: Domains
Part IV: A Firebird Database and its Objects: 13: From Drawing Board to Database
- 14: Creating and Maintaining a Database
- 15: Tables
- 16: Referential Integrity
- 17: Indexes
- 18: Views and Other Derived Tables
- 19: Types of SQL Statements
- 20: Queries
- 21: Expressions and Predicates
- 22: JOIN Operations
- 23: Ordered and Aggregated Sets
- 24: Union Queries
Part VI: Transactions and Concurrency: 25: Overview of Firebird Transactions
- 26: Record Versions, Concurrency and Isolation Levels
- 27: Programming with Transactions
Part VII: Programming on the Server: 28: Introduction to Firebird Programming
- 29: Developing PSQL Modules
- 30: Stored Procedures
- 31: Triggers
- 32: Error Trapping and Handling
- 33: Events
- 34: External Code Modules
Part VIII: Security: 35: Security in the Operating Environment
- 36: Server Protection
- 37: Database-level Security
Part IX: Tools
- Summary of Firebird's Command-line Tools
- 39: Database Backup and Restore (gbak)
- 40: Housekeeping Tool (gfix)
- 41: Server Statistics Tools
- Appendices: SQL Statement and Function Summary
- Migrating to Firebird
- Implementing Auto-incrementing Keys
- Solving Network Problems
- Appendix V Application Interfaces.

Helen Borrie is a database application developer, a member of the FirebirdSQL development team, and a former journalist, who doubles as a technical writer. She is a frequent contributor to support lists for InterBase, Firebird, and Delphi database programming.