Re: [Firebird-docs] How to translate COLLATION into German?

2016-08-11 Thread Stefan Heymann
Martin, > How would you translate COLLATION or COLLATE? Do we translate this > or leave it as it is? In this case I'd suggest to stay with "Collation". A collation is different from a "sort order" (Sortierreihenfolge). It's more like the algorithm that "does" the sorting. (Sort order is more the

[Firebird-docs] Fb3 Release Notes

2016-04-27 Thread Stefan Heymann
Hello all, I have seen this in the Fb3 Final Release Notes on Page 108: The size of the body of a stored procedure or a trigger can exceed the traditional limit of 32 KB. The theoretical limit provided by the new API is 4GB. At the moment, as a security measure, a hard-coded limit of 10MB

[Firebird-docs] Firebird 3 Authentication: passwords

2015-07-15 Thread Stefan Heymann
I'm just reading through the Firebird 3 release notes. The chapter about "Increased Password Length" speaks of a maximum of 20 bytes. The second blue box in this chapter then asks: **Why is the password effectively limited to 20 characters? It is unclear from this documentation if this is about

Re: [Firebird-docs] Choosing the translation service

2014-11-21 Thread Stefan Heymann
>> "All statements except the BEGIN…END blocks must be separated by a >> semicolon.." >> - terminated, not separated. > > I think separated is actually correct here (although terminated is as > well). The statement is terminated by the semi-colon, but multiple > statements are separated by the s

Re: [Firebird-docs] Choosing the translation service

2014-11-21 Thread Stefan Heymann
> So, text should look like this: > Each block of statements must be put within the operator parentheses > BEGIN and END > > Not very good? Fine, then something like this: > "Each block of statements must be put within block delimiters BEGIN and > END." I think the original text se

Re: [Firebird-docs] German translations of Docwriting and Using non-Western fonts

2013-08-21 Thread Stefan Heymann
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Re: [Firebird-docs] German translations of Docwriting and Using non-Western fonts

2013-08-20 Thread Stefan Heymann
> @Stefan > The latest (complete) PDF can be downloaded at > http://firebird.it-syn.de/pdf/firebirddocs-de.pdf. That are 140 pages (phew!). Which are the new chapters? Regards Stefan -- Stefan Heymann www.destructor.de

Re: [Firebird-docs] German translations of Docwriting and Using non-Western fonts

2013-08-20 Thread Stefan Heymann
> I know there are some German and Austrian people on this list. > Hopefully one of them can read your translations more thoroughly. I would do that, but reading the single HTML pages seems a bit tedious. If there is a single PDF that would be more handy. Regards Stefan -- Stefan H

[Firebird-docs] Language Reference Update and EXISTS() function

2011-04-03 Thread Stefan Heymann
Hi all, the EXISTS() function (that I like and use a lot) seems to be missing from the Language Reference Update (and from the Release Notes). I cannot find an information when this function was introduced into InterBase or Firebird. Some suggestions for a description text: EXISTS() Available i