Release Notes
InterBase 6.0 Field Test
November 1999
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Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1 General Information
General Information ..........................6
Contacting Inprise/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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Chap ter 1 General Information
This chapter covers the following topics:
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Contacting Inprise/Borland
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The install directory
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System requirements
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Documentation and Adobe Acrobat Reader
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System requirements
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MPORTANT See Getting Started for installation instructions and detailed information about
migrating existing databases and applications.
