Practical InterBase Administration is for InterBase DBAs: effective maintenance and optimization, parallel to the Firebird administration course.

About 5-6 hours · English · All courses

Syllabus

  • InterBase distribution files
    • Files and their purpose (Windows, Linux)
    • Installation packages
    • Minor version updates
  • Transactions and the versioning engine
    • Multi-versioning, garbage collection, sweep
    • Transaction control: OIT, OST, OAT, Next
    • Version control with gstat and Database Analyst
    • Long-running transactions and garbage
  • Administrative tasks and command-line tools
    • isql
    • gbak (backup, restore, incremental gbak -di)
  • IBCONFIG
    • Parameters
    • iblockpr
    • Tuning for better performance