SELECT

Внимание! Почти с каждым новым релизом сервера Firebird в оператор SELECT добавлялась новая возможность или параметр. В связи с этим, смотрите версию сервера напротив описания каждого параметра оператора.

<select statement> ::= 
  <select expression> [FOR UPDATE] [WITH LOCK]

<select_expression> ::= 
  <select_expr_body>
  [ ORDER BY <sort_value_list> ]
  [ ROWS     <record_number> [TO <record_number>] ]

<select_expr_body> ::=
  { <query_specification> | <select_expr_body> UNION [DISTINCT | ALL] <query_specification> }

<query_specification> ::=
  SELECT 
    [DISTINCT | ALL] 
    [FIRST {<record_number> | (:param_recordnumber) } [SKIP <record_number> | (:param_recordnumber) ] ] 
    <select_list>
  FROM     <reference_expression_list>
  [ WHERE    <search condition>   ]
  [ GROUP BY <group_value_list>   ]
  [ HAVING   <group_condition>    ]
  [ PLAN     <plan_item_list>     ]

<select_list> ::=
  {  <constant> 
   | <column_name>[<array_dim>]
   | <expression>
   | <function> ([<select_list>])
   | <UDF> ([<select_list>])
   | NULL
   | {CURRENT_USER | CURRENT_ROLE | CURRENT_TIMESTAMP | CURRENT_CONNECTION | CURRENT_XXX }
   | RDB$DB_KEY
  } [COLLATE <collate>] [AS <column_alias_name>]

<reference_expression_list> ::= 
  {<table name> | <view name> | <procedure name> | <joined table> | <derived table> }

<derived table> ::= 
  '(' <select expression> ')'

<joined table> ::= 
  { <cross_join> | <qualified_join> }

<cross_join> ::= 
  <reference_expression_list> CROSS JOIN <reference_expression_list>

<qualified_join> ::=
  <reference_expression_list> [{INNER | {LEFT | RIGHT | FULL} [OUTER]}] JOIN <reference_expression_list> ON <join condition>

<search_condition> ::=
    <val> <operator> { <val> | <singletone_select> }
  | <val> [NOT] BETWEEN <val> AND <val>
  | <val> [NOT] LIKE <val> [ESCAPE <val>]
  | <val> [NOT] CONTAINING <val>
  | <val> [NOT] STARTING WITH <val> 
  | <val> [NOT] IN ( { <val> [,<val> ] | <select expression> } )
  | <val> IS [NOT] NULL
  | {ALL | SOME | ANY} (<select expression>)
  | EXISTS (<select expression>)
  | SINGULAR (<select expression>)
  | {AND | OR} [NOT] (<search condition>)
    
<operator> ::=
  { = | < | > | <= | >= | !< | !> | <> | != }

<sort_value_list> ::=
  {<column_name> | <column_number | expression> } [COLLATE <collation> ] [ASC[ENDING] | DESC[ENDING] [NULLS {FIRST|LAST}] ] [, <sort_value_list>]

Для передачи параметра в предложения First, Skip и Rows параметр надо заключать в скобки:

select first (:param) <список выбираемых полей> from my_table

Встроенные функции, UDF, CURSOR, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, COLLATE, FOR, RDB$DB_KEY, JOIN

CONTAINING, LIKE

LangRef.pdf, Firebird 1.5 Language Reference Update

($firebird)/doc/sql.extension/README.select_expressions.txt