Modifying your Data

With InterBase XE3, adding or modifying your data is fast and easy.

Adding Additional Data

We are going to add a table called "Blogs" to our database.

1. In the IBConsole page, click to open the SQL Interactive page.
2. Enter the code shown below and click . The new table is added.

CREATE TABLE blogs (Country char(10), Operating System varchar(2), User varchar(25));
INSERT INTO blogs VALUES ('USA', 'Android', 'Joe' );

Modifying Data

When we created our "Blogs" table, we forgot to add a column of important information so we need to modify the Blogs table.

1. In IBConsole, double-click the table Blogs in the right-hand panel.
2. In the Properties for BLOGS dialog click the Alter Selected Item icon () and the Table Editor dialog opens.
3. Click Add Field to create a new column in your table with the following information:

Name: Mobile Unit

Field Kind: Specified Datatype

SQL Type: Select VARCHAR from the drop down menu

Character Length: 25

Character Set: UTF8

4. Click OK to close both dialogs and your new column has been added.

Granting User Permissions by Defining Roles

You may want to grant a particular collection of privileges to your sales people and a different collection of privileges to your accounting staff. The privileges for each case may be quite complex. Without roles, you would need to create a lengthy and detailed GRANT statement each time a new sales or accounting person joined the company. By using roles, you avoid this problem.

Implementing roles is a four-step process:

1. Define the role.

CREATE ROLE role_name

2. Grant privileges to the role
   

GRANT {one or more of INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, SELECT, REFERENCES, EXECUTE} 
ON table_name to role_name

GRANT UPDATE (col_name1, col_name 2) ON table_name TO role_name

When the access is restricted to certain columns, as in the second line, only UPDATE and REFERENCES can be granted. EXECUTE must always be granted in a separate statement.

3. Grant the role to users

GRANT role_name TO user_name1, user_name2

The users have now have all the privileges that were granted to the role_name role. But there’s an additional step before those privileges are available to them. They must specify the role when the connect to a database.

4. Specify the role when connecting to a database.

For a complete explanation of granting privileges, see Access Privileges in the InterBase Quick Start

Testing Queries

• Steps on how to test queries

Performing Administrative Tasks

• Not sure what other "administrative tasks" need to be covered here...

creating a new users?

working with the local server?

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The installation of Mac OS X requires an Administrator password to install the software. For a step-by-step explanation of installing Mac OS X see: Installing XE for Mac OS X

The installation of InterBase XE for Linux requires an Administrator password to install the software. For a step-by-step explanation of installing Linux see: Installing InterBase XE for Linux

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