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<document> 
  <header> 
    <title>Interbase</title>
  </header> 
  <body> 
    <p>
      DdlUtils supports <a href="ext:interbase">Interbase</a> version <strong>7.0</strong> and above.
    </p>
    <p>&nbsp;</p>
    <p>
      Platform identifier:
    </p>
    <ul>
      <li><code>Interbase</code></li>
    </ul>
    <p>&nbsp;</p>
    <p>
      Recognized JDBC driver:
    </p>
    <ul>
      <li><code>interbase.interclient.Driver</code></li>
    </ul>
    <p>&nbsp;</p>
    <p>
      Recognized JDBC sub protocol:
    </p>
    <ul>
      <li><code>jdbc:interbase</code></li>
    </ul>
    <p>&nbsp;</p>
    <table>
      <tr>
        <td class="platformPropName">The database supports SQL comments</td>
        <td class="platformPropValue">yes</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td class="platformPropName">The database supports delimited identifiers</td>
        <td class="platformPropValue">yes</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td class="platformPropName">The database's maximum identifier length</td>
        <td class="platformPropValue">31</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td class="platformPropName">The database supports default values for <code>LONG</code> types</td>
        <td class="platformPropValue">yes</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td class="platformPropName">DdlUtils uses sequences for identity columns</td>
        <td class="platformPropValue">sort-of, DdlUtils uses a GENERATOR</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td class="platformPropName">The database supports non-primary key columns as identity columns</td>
        <td class="platformPropValue">yes</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td class="platformPropName">The database allows INSERT/UPDATE statements to set values for identity columns</td>
        <td class="platformPropValue">yes</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td class="platformPropName">DdlUtils can read back the auto-generated value of an identity column</td>
        <td class="platformPropValue">yes</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td class="platformPropName">The database supports non-unique indices</td>
        <td class="platformPropValue">yes</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td class="platformPropName">DdlUtils can create a database via JDBC</td>
        <td class="platformPropValue">no</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td class="platformPropName">DdlUtils can drop a database via JDBC</td>
        <td class="platformPropValue">no</td>
      </tr>
    </table>
    <p>&nbsp;</p>
    <table>
      <tr>
        <th class="typeMappingJdbcType">JDBC Type</th>
        <th class="typeMappingNativeType">Database Type</th>
        <th class="typeMappingComments">Additional comments</th>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>ARRAY</td>
        <td>BLOB</td>
        <td>Will be read back as LONGVARBINARY</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>BIGINT</td>
        <td>NUMERIC(18,0)</td>
        <td></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>BINARY</td>
        <td>BLOB</td>
        <td>We could use <code>CHAR(n) CHARACTER SET OCTETS</code> but the JDBC driver
            cannot handle these types properly.<br/>
            Will be read back as LONGVARBINARY</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>BIT</td>
        <td>SMALLINT</td>
        <td>Interbase has no native boolean type<br/>
            Will be read back as SMALLINT</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>BLOB</td>
        <td>BLOB</td>
        <td>Will be read back as LONGVARBINARY</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>BOOLEAN</td>
        <td>SMALLINT</td>
        <td>Interbase has no native boolean type<br/>
            Will be read back as SMALLINT</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>CHAR</td>
        <td>CHAR</td>
        <td></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>CLOB</td>
        <td>BLOB SUB_TYPE TEXT</td>
        <td></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>DATALINK</td>
        <td>BLOB</td>
        <td>Will be read back as LONGVARBINARY</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>DATE</td>
        <td>DATE</td>
        <td></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>DECIMAL</td>
        <td>DECIMAL</td>
        <td></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>DISTINCT</td>
        <td>BLOB</td>
        <td>Will be read back as LONGVARBINARY</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>DOUBLE</td>
        <td>DOUBLE PRECISION</td>
        <td></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>FLOAT</td>
        <td>DOUBLE PRECISION</td>
        <td>Will be read back as DOUBLE</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>INTEGER</td>
        <td>INTEGER</td>
        <td></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>JAVA_OBJECT</td>
        <td>BLOB</td>
        <td>Will be read back as LONGVARBINARY</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>LONGVARBINARY</td>
        <td>BLOB</td>
        <td></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>LONGVARCHAR</td>
        <td>BLOB SUB_TYPE TEXT</td>
        <td>Will be read back as CLOB</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>NULL</td>
        <td>BLOB</td>
        <td>Will be read back as LONGVARBINARY</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>NUMERIC</td>
        <td>NUMERIC</td>
        <td></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>OTHER</td>
        <td>BLOB</td>
        <td>Will be read back as LONGVARBINARY</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>REAL</td>
        <td>FLOAT</td>
        <td></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>REF</td>
        <td>BLOB</td>
        <td>Will be read back as LONGVARBINARY</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>SMALLINT</td>
        <td>SMALLINT</td>
        <td></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>STRUCT</td>
        <td>BLOB</td>
        <td>Will be read back as LONGVARBINARY</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>TIME</td>
        <td>TIME</td>
        <td></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>TIMESTAMP</td>
        <td>TIMESTAMP</td>
        <td></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>TINYINT</td>
        <td>SMALLINT</td>
        <td>Will be read back as SMALLINT</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>VARBINARY</td>
        <td>BLOB</td>
        <td>We could use <code>VARCHAR(n) CHARACTER SET OCTETS</code> but the JDBC driver
            cannot handle these types properly.<br/>
            Will be read back as LONGVARBINARY</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>VARCHAR</td>
        <td>VARCHAR</td>
        <td></td>
      </tr>
    </table>
  </body>
</document>
