Function Categories
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There are twelve classes of InterBase API function calls:
- Array functions for handling arrays of data
- Blob functions for handling the InterBase Blob data type
- Database functions for handling database requests
- Conversion functions for translating dates between InterBase format and UNIX format, and for reversing the byte-order of integers
- DSQL functions for handling SQL statements entered by users at run time
- Error-handling functions
- Event functions for registering interest in events posted by triggers and stored procedures in applications and for processing the event queue
- Information functions for retrieving information about databases, transactions, Blob data, and events
- Install functions for writing silent embedded installs of InterBase
- Security functions for adding, deleting, and modifying user records in the password database
- Services functions for administering server and database properties
- Transaction functions for handling transactions in an application
Some functions, such as information calls, occur in more than one class.
Topics
- Array Functions
- Blob Functions
- Database Functions
- Conversion Functions
- DSQL Functions
- Error-handling Functions
- Event Functions
- Information Functions
- Install Functions
- Licensing Functions
- Services Functions
- Transaction Control Functions