Online Documentation for SQL Manager for InterBase/Firebird
External Functions
An External function is a database function written entirely in a host language to perform data manipulation tasks not directly supported by InterBase/Firebird. It's executed on the server.
External functions give you the ability to create your own functions (like count) and integrate them in the database itself. Each external function is arranged as a function belonging to DLL. Thus, one dynamically loaded library consists of at least one function.
External Function Editor allows you to define user-defined function properties. It opens automatically when you declare a new user-defined function and is available on editing an existing one.
To open an external function External Function Editor, double-click it in the DB Explorer tree.
- Using Navigation bar and Toolbar
- Creating/editing external function
- Browsing object dependencies
- Editing object description
- Viewing DDL definition
