Firebird Interactive SQL Utility

Kamala Vadlamani, 10 April 2013 – Document version 0.5

Extensive review and many changes: Paul Vinkenoog

Firebird 2.x updates, conversion to stand alone manual: Norman Dunbar

• Introduction
• Overview
• Invoking isql
• Command-line switches
• Starting an isql session
• Ending an isql session
• Getting help
• Connecting to a database
• Creating a database
• Setting the ISC_USER and ISC_PASSWORD environment variables
• SQL dialects
• Terminator character
• isql prompts
• Error handling and exception support
• Transaction handling
• Script handling
• isql commands
• isql SET commands
• isql SHOW commands
• A: Document history
• B: License notice