[Overview][Constants][Types][Classes][Index] Reference for unit 'IBConnection' (#fcl)

TIBConnection

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TIBConnection: Firebird/Interbase specific TSQLConnection

Declaration

Source position: ibconnection.pp line 55

type TIBConnection = class(TSQLConnection) end;

public

  constructor Create(); override;

  

Creates a TIBConnection object

  function GetConnectionInfo(); override;

  procedure CreateDB; override;

  

Creates a database on disk

  procedure DropDB; override;

  

Deletes a database from disk

  property BlobSegmentSize: Word; [rw] deprecated ;

  

Write this amount of bytes per BLOB segment

  property ODSMajorVersion: Integer; [r]

published

  property DatabaseName: string;

  

Name of the database to connect to

  property Dialect: Integer; [rws]

  

Database dialect

  property KeepConnection: Boolean;

  

Keep open connection after first query

  property LoginPrompt: Boolean;

  

Switch for showing custom login prompt

  property Params: TStrings;

  

Firebird/Interbase specific parameters

  property OnLogin: TLoginEvent;

  

Event triggered when a login prompt needs to be shown.

Inheritance

TIBConnection

  

TIBConnection: Firebird/Interbase specific TSQLConnection

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TSQLConnection

  

An abstract class representing a connection to a SQL Database

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TDatabase

  

Base class for connecting a FreePascal application to an external Database engine

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TCustomConnection

  

Abstract class for connections to a server

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TComponent,IUnknown,IInterfaceComponentReference

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TPersistent,IFPObserved

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TObject

Description

TIBConnection is a descendant of TSQLConnection and represents a connection to a Firebird/Interbase server.

It is designed to work with Interbase 6, Firebird 1 and newer database servers.

TIBConnection by default requires the Firebird/Interbase client library (e.g. gds32.dll, libfbclient.so, fbclient.dll,fbembed.dll) and its dependencies to be installed on the system. The bitness between library and your application must match: e.g. use 32 bit fbclient when developing a 32 bit application on 64 bit Linux.

On Windows, in accordance with the regular Windows way of loading DLLs, the library can also be in the executable directory. In fact, this directory is searched first, and might be a good option for distributing software to end users as it eliminates problems with incompatible DLL versions.

TIBConnection is based on FPC Interbase/Firebird code (ibase60.inc) that tries to load the client library. If you want to use Firebird embedded, make sure the embedded library is searched/loaded first. There are several ways to do this:

Pre 2.5.1 versions of FPC did not try to load the fbembed library by default. See FPC bug 17664 for more details.

An indication of which DLLs need to be installed on Windows (Firebird 2.5, differs between versions:

Please see your database documentation for details.

The TIBConnection component does not reliably detect computed fields as such. This means that automatically generated update sql statements will attempt to update these fields, resulting in SQL errors. These errors can be avoided by removing the pfInUpdate flag from the provideroptions from a field, once it has been created:

MyQuery.FieldByName('full_name').ProviderFlags:=[];
          

See also

TSQLConnection


Documentation generated on: Nov 14 2015