Re: [Firebird-docs] Adding new doc "Firebird UDRs in Pascal"

2023-09-20 Thread Alexey Kovyazin (ak) via Firebird-docs
Hello, Lets put there IDPL. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin Денис Симонов via Firebird-docs : > I don't mind. This article was originally created for general access, > although I did not think about the license, but if necessary, I can add so > that there is no contradiction > &g

Re: [Firebird-docs] Outdated documents

2021-07-05 Thread Alexey Kovyazin (ak)
Hello Mark, May be we can map page of multi page document to the link of single page document with anchor? Regards, Alexey Kovyazin пн, 5 июл. 2021 г., 22:09 Mark Rotteveel : > On 05-07-2021 20:04, Alexey Kovyazin wrote: > > I just found that we have a hidden nest of old version

[Firebird-docs] Outdated documents

2021-07-05 Thread Alexey Kovyazin
it will be seamlessly unified, without many 404 on site. Is it Ok? or could be another solution? Regards, Alexey Kovyazin ___ Firebird-docs mailing list Firebird-docs@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-docs

Re: [Firebird-docs] Review Firebird 4.0 Language Reference

2021-05-24 Thread Alexey Kovyazin
Hello, I think, the good idea will be to include link to it to the launch message for release of 4.0. Regards, Alexey On 24.05.2021 19:18, Mark Rotteveel wrote: I 'soft-launched' the language reference and put it online on https://firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-rdbms/ and

Re: [Firebird-docs] Firebird 3.0 Language Reference

2021-02-23 Thread Alexey Kovyazin (ak)
Hello, I took a quick look and did not see any noticeable problem. Regards, Alexey вт, 23 февр. 2021 г., 19:27 Mark Rotteveel : > I'm going to publish the links tomorrow. > > Mark > > On 20-02-2021 17:02, Mark Rotteveel wrote: > > I have finished up the first version of the Firebird 3.0

Re: [Firebird-docs] Firebird 3.0 Language Reference

2021-02-20 Thread Alexey Kovyazin
Hello Mark, Great work! Thank you vey much! I will read it, of course. Regards, Alexey On 20.02.2021 19:02, Mark Rotteveel wrote: I have finished up the first version of the Firebird 3.0 Language Reference, I used the 2.5 version as starting point, and added new things based on the release

Re: [Firebird-docs] gstat OST - OIT and Sweep

2020-07-31 Thread Alexey Kovyazin (ak)
Hello Martin, I spoke with Vlad about section devoted to garbage, and we agreed it is difficult. I plan to rewrite it with pictures explaining records versions, garbage and sweep, but it really needs courage :) I suggest to let ost-oit phrases as is. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon пт

Re: [Firebird-docs] Translation of Russian Firebird 3.0 Language Reference

2020-07-30 Thread Alexey Kovyazin
Mark, And if the Firebird 2.5 translation is any indication, translating it will require a ton of effort afterwards to make it presentable. I'd rather spent time and effort to write it myself (maybe with some inspiration and copy/google-translate/paste/edit from the Russian version). I

Re: [Firebird-docs] Translation of Russian Firebird 3.0 Language Reference

2020-07-30 Thread Alexey Kovyazin
Mark, On 30.07.2020 16:37, Mark Rotteveel wrote: On 2020-07-30 13:20, Alexey Kovyazin (ak) wrote: Hello, We did survey in Telegram channel, and idea was to skip 3.0 and do the translation of LR4.0... What Telegram channel? https://t.me/firebirdsql Not very representative, of course

Re: [Firebird-docs] Translation of Russian Firebird 3.0 Language Reference

2020-07-30 Thread Alexey Kovyazin (ak)
Hello, We did survey in Telegram channel, and idea was to skip 3.0 and do the translation of LR4.0... Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon чт, 30 июл. 2020 г., 12:55 Mark Rotteveel : > On 2020-07-30 09:44, Köditz wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > > > I was asked whethe

[Firebird-docs] [FirebirdSQL/firebird-documentation] 521ee7: Update of nbackup documentation (#12)

2020-07-25 Thread Alexey Kovyazin
Branch: refs/heads/master Home: https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird-documentation Commit: 521ee76d782ca3ee9581691e2e217c13bd302cc0 https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird-documentation/commit/521ee76d782ca3ee9581691e2e217c13bd302cc0 Author: Alexey Kovyazin Date: 2020-07

Re: [Firebird-docs] What is the process of enhancing documentation?

2020-07-08 Thread Alexey Kovyazin
Mark, Martin, thanks, will try. Regards, Alexey On 08.07.2020 16:15, Mark Rotteveel wrote: On 08-07-2020 14:33, Alexey Kovyazin wrote: I would like to amend documentation of gfix and nbackup to add some recovery commands, 1-2 examples, extend description of process, etc. What is the general

Re: [Firebird-docs] Firebird File and Metadata Security migrated

2020-07-01 Thread Alexey Kovyazin (ak)
Hello, I support the idea of the single Page list/index for all docs. I suggest that we should create such page, and then ask people about their opinion (it will also increase awareness of documentation). Regards, Alexey Kovyazin ср, 1 июл. 2020 г., 16:31 Paul Vinkenoog : > Mark Rottev

Re: [Firebird-docs] Firebird 3.0 Developer's Guide migrated

2020-06-27 Thread Alexey Kovyazin
Hello Mark, Thank you very much, excellent work! Regards, Alexey On 27.06.2020 11:14, Mark Rotteveel wrote: New links: https://www.firebirdsql.org/file/documentation/html/en/refdocs/fbdevgd30/firebird-30-developers-guide.html

Re: [Firebird-docs] Conversion of fbutil-*

2020-06-15 Thread Alexey Kovyazin (ak)
o you plan to convert also Developers Guide? Regards, Alexey Kovyazin пн, 15 июн. 2020 г., 21:13 Mark Rotteveel : > I was planning on converting the fbutil-* documentation next, however I > was wondering how to approach this. Historically, we have released those > as individual d

Re: [Firebird-docs] Firebird 2.5 Language Reference migration preview

2020-06-06 Thread Alexey Kovyazin
Hello, Looks good! Thank you for your efforts, Mark! What is the next - Firebird Developers Guide? Or Quick Start Guide? Or something else? Regards, Alexey On 06.06.2020 11:37, Mark Rotteveel wrote: I have updated the documentation section on the site to point to the new version. Mark

Re: [Firebird-docs] Firebird 2.5 Language Reference migration preview

2020-06-01 Thread Alexey Kovyazin
Hello Mark, PDF link is the same as HTML. Regards, Alexey On 01.06.2020 18:52, Mark Rotteveel wrote: I have migrated the Firebird 2.5 Language Reference, and it is available for preview on: HTML:

Re: [Firebird-docs] The single Page for the documentation outline

2020-05-27 Thread Alexey Kovyazin (ak)
Hello Mark, Like that Page but with high level table of contents for each document. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin ср, 27 мая 2020 г., 14:25 Mark Rotteveel : > On 2020-05-27 09:43, Alexey Kovyazin (ak) wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > As you know, Firebird documentation contai

[Firebird-docs] The single Page for the documentation outline

2020-05-27 Thread Alexey Kovyazin (ak)
outline. Not like a 100% organized documentation set, of co3, but better than current distributed structure. What do you think? Regards, Alexey Kovyazin ___ Firebird-docs mailing list Firebird-docs@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Firebird-docs] Do we need/want chunked HTML?

2020-03-08 Thread Alexey Kovyazin
Hello, I think we don't need chuncked html. Regards, Alexey On 08.03.2020 16:13, Mark Rotteveel wrote: As I'm looking at the asciidoc conversion, our current choice of having a (single) PDF and a chunked HTML output on the website is a bit of a pain point. Asciidoctor does not support

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Re: [firebird-support] Database/Table Corruption

2019-12-27 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hello, before you try FirstAID, download IBPump and try to pump all data to the new database with the same structure. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon On 27.12.2019 22:49, Hugo Eyng hugoe...@msn.com [firebird-support] wrote: Hello. FB 2.5.7 Windows 10 64 bits Page size 4096 I am

Re: [firebird-support] Re: High write access on disk

2019-11-13 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hello, For predictable load reads/fetches is very useful metric, but in case of spikes like Thomas has - 96 connections to 1300, it will be far less useful. Regards, Alexey On 13.11.2019 14:50, Dimitry Sibiryakov s...@ibphoenix.com [firebird-support] wrote: > 13.11.2019 12:41, Alexey Kovya

Re: [firebird-support] Re: High write access on disk

2019-11-13 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hello, Yes, better use default - pagecache in terms of Linux is different from Page Buffers/Page cache of Firebird. Regards, Alexey On 13.11.2019 15:10, kragh.tho...@yahoo.com [firebird-support] wrote: Hey Alexey Thanks for the answer, I only have one question left, do I need to adjust

Re: [firebird-support] Re: High write access on disk

2019-11-13 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hello Thomas, Ok, good to know that you are prepared for the migration! FB3 with proper migration and config certainly will increase the overall performance. In my presentation regarding Linux I spoke about specific case which is under everyday control, and in our long way, we also started

Re: [firebird-support] Re: High write access on disk

2019-11-13 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
4 have different optimization, so some queries can start to work slower, and thorough testing is required. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon On 13.11.2019 11:56, kragh.tho...@yahoo.com [firebird-support] wrote: Hey Alexey Thanks for the advise, I changed TempCacheLimit to 21, last

Re: [firebird-support] High write access on disk

2019-11-12 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hello Thomas, Seems like your system generates a lot of sort files - the problem can be that TempCacheLimit in Firebird 2.5 cannot be more than 2Gb -1. When you set it to something between 2 and 4Gb, it means 0. So, set something like TempCacheLimit=21 Consider to tune other

Re: [firebird-support] Off-Topic: Firebird future

2019-10-21 Thread 'Alexey Kovyazin (ak)' a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon пн, 21 окт. 2019 г., 19:24 Stefan Heymann li...@stefanheymann.de [firebird-support] : > > > > > Official or not, we need a simple, up to date, Firebird only, native > > GUI. > > I don't get the point. There are GUI tools readily ava

Re: [firebird-support] Scaling Firebird - Azure

2019-10-09 Thread 'Alexey Kovyazin (ak)' a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Ocean, Hetzner and even Google Cloud. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon ср, 9 окт. 2019 г., 10:49 'Louis van Alphen' lo...@nucleo.co.za [firebird-support] : > > > I think it is unfair to say Azure sucks. I have had huge performance > issues with FB on a normal server with server gr

Re: [firebird-support] Scaling Firebird - Azure

2019-10-09 Thread 'Alexey Kovyazin (ak)' a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hello, In short words, Azure sucks, its so called Premium SSD is worse than the cheapest consumer grade ssd. Try Google Cloud or Amazon, or Hetzner. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon пн, 7 окт. 2019 г., 0:20 Rune Horneland rune.hornel...@kravia.net [firebird-support] : > > >

Re: [firebird-support] Re: Does gbak use WireCompression?

2019-09-17 Thread 'Alexey Kovyazin (ak)' a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Martin, Vlad head read my mind and answered :) Try remote restore through service manager, it is much faster. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin вт, 17 сент. 2019 г., 9:59 hv...@users.sourceforge.net [firebird-support] < firebird-support@yahoogroups.com>: > > > ---In firebird-support@

Re: [firebird-support] Firebird 3.0 performance, Windows 10 vs Mint, big different

2019-06-23 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
other choice. I personally experienced slowness on one of my own desktops, and perfect performance on the another one. Better just stay out from this lottery. Try to make experiments with Windows Server, it will make more sense. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon Anto

Re: [firebird-support] How to know if FileSystemCacheThreshold works?

2019-06-22 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hello, Download RAMMap from Sysinternals (Micorosft), and see if database file is in list of cached files. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon On 22.06.2019 11:42, trsk...@yahoo.com [firebird-support] wrote: Hi guys, I have FB 3.04 SS in windows 10. I have a database with these setting

Re: [firebird-support] Understanding Firebird Security

2019-05-20 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
rather shocked by that. Why? Any database can be opened if you have access to the database file - there are plenty of recovery tools for MSSQL, PostrgeSQL, etc, to dump the contents of the database. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon On 20.05.2019 13:32, sbai...@mutualconsultants.ltd.uk

Re: [firebird-support] Understanding Firebird Security

2019-05-20 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
hird-party plugins available or you can build your own. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon Steve Bailey

Re: [firebird-support] "12. Don't forget to enable file cache with big Firebird cache page"

2019-01-09 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
provide details about it. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon On 09.01.2019 10:57, liviuslivius liviusliv...@poczta.onet.pl [firebird-support] wrote: Hi, i have read on http://firebirdsql.org/ article "23 More Ways To Speed Up Firebird". Can you explain me point "12. Don't forget

Re: [firebird-support] Firebird vs. PostgreSQL

2018-11-08 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
. Best regards Dalton On Wed, 7 Nov 2018 at 14:32, Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com <mailto:a...@ib-aid.com> [firebird-support] <mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com>> wrote: Hello Dalton, >Where do you see the list of features that are destined to be in 5?

Re: [firebird-support] Firebird vs. PostgreSQL

2018-11-07 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
membership in Firebird Foundation (which can be bought separately by USD$300/year). Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon

Re: [firebird-support] Firebird vs. PostgreSQL

2018-11-07 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
nd 3.0, and will be in community Firebird 4.0 Master-Master is the next step for 5.0. (6) High Available Clustering agree, it will be based on top of the replication. Regards, Alexey On Wed, 7 Nov 2018 at 12:19, Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com <mailto:a...@ib-aid.com> [firebird-support] <mailto:f

Re: [firebird-support] Firebird vs. PostgreSQL

2018-11-07 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Thank you! In my opinion, Firebird will close the gap with PG in main features in 2 years, with FB5.0 version. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon www.ib-aid.com On 07.11.2018 19:58, 'Martijn Tonies (Upscene Productions)' m.ton...@upscene.com [firebird-support] wrote: > Hello Alexey, > &

Re: [firebird-support] Firebird vs. PostgreSQL

2018-11-07 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Martijn, What about compilation of stored procedures - is it true that it is possible to create SP with errors, and they appear only when it will be invoked? Also, about checking the parameters - is it true that you can create stored procedure which invokes other stored procedure with wrong

Re: [firebird-support] Firebird cluster

2018-08-22 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hello, As you probably know, Firebird a) uses complex mechanism to write consistent data to the database file even in the multi-users environment, b) intensively uses own cache, which must be synced with database file. SafeKit says it is byte-level replication. So, essentially it is the same

Re: [firebird-support] Re: how can the creation of fb_sort files be avoided? 2.2 GB of fb_sort files

2018-08-07 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hello, Since you have enough RAM, you can increase TempCacheLimit in firebird.conf, for example, set 20Gb. Fb_sort_xxx files will be created only if sorting will require more than TempCacheLimit. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon On 07.08.2018 10:35, bieten2...@yahoo.de [firebird-support

Re: [firebird-support] Firebird 3.0 - Won't Start - terminated due to startup error (2)

2018-07-30 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hello, Don't install from repo, better download installation package from firebirdsql.org and install it instead. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon On 27.07.2018 19:41, mailinglist.int.it.firebird.supp...@principledgroup.com [firebird-support] wrote: Problem: Firebird 3.0

Re: [firebird-support] Plan with stored procedure

2018-06-22 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi Josef, Firebird 3 shows plan Natural for all procedures. 2.5 also sometimes shows Natural, sometimes - mix of plans of queries inside the procedure. So, you cannot apply this plan to the statement. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon www.ib-aid.com On 22.06.2018 9:47, josef.gschwendt

Re: [firebird-support] Diagnosing CPU usage

2018-05-11 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
, and sort on record_idx_reads. If there are many records - Remove prepared The queries with the highest numbers of record_idx_reads are those which responsible for high CPU usage. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon On 10.05.2018 16:12, Rudi Feijó rudi.fe...@multidadosti.com.br [firebird-support] wrote:

Re: [firebird-support] Measure the effectiveness of incrementing page buffer...

2018-05-04 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
I am totally agree with Mark. Ratio of page reads/page fetches for all queries has a little sense. For example, the single badly designed query with many page fetches can "improve" this parameter a lot, without any real improvement in the performance, of course. Regards, Alexe

Re: [firebird-support] What regular maintenance actions does Firebird need in order to function properly?

2018-05-04 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hello, We recommend perform at least everyday sweep - with disconnect of long running active writeable transactions before it. Can you please clarify what do you mean by > measuring the effectiveness of the page cache ? Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon www.ib-aid.com On 04.05.2018 5

Re: [firebird-support] gbak of encrypted database

2018-05-01 Thread 'Alexey Kovyazin (ak)' a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
the encrypted backup is also encrypted, otherwise it will be a security hole. If you're implementing your own plugin, you can implement whatever you need. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon вт, 1 мая 2018 г., 3:24 Hamish Moffatt ham...@risingsoftware.com [firebird-support] <firebird-supp

Re: [firebird-support] windows server 2016 as server for firebird 2.5.7

2017-12-06 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hello Nils, No other issues. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon On 05.12.2017 14:52, Nils Boedeker nilsboede...@t-online.de [firebird-support] wrote: Hi I want to use windows server 2016 as server for firebird 2.5.7 (Classic Server) are there any known issus with using firebird

Re: [firebird-support] Converting to firebird 3

2017-10-12 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
/45-ways-to-speed-up-firebird-database/ https://www.slideshare.net/ibsurgeon/resolving-firebird-performance-problems Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon On 11.10.2017 12:35, 'Gian Uys' gian...@gmail.com [firebird-support] wrote: Hi We have an application with roughly 20 000 lines of code and have

Re: [firebird-support] detect if database has changed

2017-10-09 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi, Look at System Audit feature. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon HQbird www.ib-aid.com On 09.10.2017 2:49, Hamish Moffatt ham...@risingsoftware.com [firebird-support] wrote: Is there an official way to detect if a database has changed? I have some expensive reports and backups to run

Re: [Firebird-docs] ATTN committers: SourceForge to terminate CVS support on November 30th

2017-10-09 Thread Alexey Kovyazin
On 09.10.2017 8:27, Jiří Činčura wrote: Convert to Git and put it under FirebirdSQL organization on GitHub for extra visibility. It might even help with contributions. +1 Regards, Alexey -- Check out the vibrant tech

Re: [firebird-support] Re: Sort error No free space found in temporary...

2017-09-03 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
is to decrease record sets which should be sorted. For example, many developers use ORDER BY for internal processing in stored procedures - usually it can be simply removed. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon On 03.09.2017 20:47, kragh.tho...@yahoo.com [firebird-support] wrote: Hey Thanks

Re: [firebird-support] Re: Sort error No free space found in temporary...

2017-09-03 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
there is the single server process. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon www.ib-aid.com On 02.09.2017 20:46, Thomas Steinmaurer t...@iblogmanager.com [firebird-support] wrote: Hi Thomas, > From what i can read on the internet TempCacheLimit, is per server > process, and not per atta

Re: [firebird-support] Firebird slowdown.

2017-08-15 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi, It can be several reasons. Try ##7, 20, 21, 23 from this list https://www.ib-aid.com/en/articles/45-ways-to-speed-up-firebird-database/ Regards, Alexey On 15.08.2017 19:50, anderphil...@hotmail.com [firebird-support] wrote: Hi, I have a strange problem which is probably quite obvious

Re: [firebird-support] Can anyone advise the difference between Firebird 2.5 32 bit vs Firebird 3 32 bit?

2017-06-23 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi, In short - 5 years of development. These versions are different major releases, no backward compatibility. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon HQbird www.ib-aid.com On 23.06.2017 12:15, 'Vonica Tng (Madsoft)' vonica@madsoft.com.sg [firebird-support] wrote: Hi, Can anyone advise

Re: [firebird-support] FB in Azure VM?

2017-06-21 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi, For 6 months of fees of powerful Azure VM you can buy the whole server. I don't know if they charge for IO rounds, like Amazon - there IO adds a huge $$ to the bill. If you want your database hosted and be reliable and safe - rent 2 servers with SSD in Hetzner and install asynchronous

Re: [firebird-support] internal firebird consistency check

2017-06-10 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
. It is not possible to 100% protect from all types of corruptions, but it possible to eliminate their consequences - implement a failover solution based on Firebird replication (VM failover does not work). Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon www.ib-aid.com 1. I got following error reported

Re: [firebird-support] nbackup

2017-06-02 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
lta is very small. In 2.5 nbackup of any level scans the whole database file. Consider to migrate to 3.0 to take advantage of nbackup improvements Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon www.ib-aid.com Hi Alexey, In my case the database is seldom larger 500 MB and the backup takes 30 maximum seco

Re: [firebird-support] nbackup

2017-06-01 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
be retrieved from the database. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin Hello, Is there a way to ask a database if someone is performing a nbackup? If it's in "the physical backup mode". I'm always paranoid if there is a power failure during a backup and it gets stuck in that mode and I would like it to re

Re: [firebird-support] Table Size

2017-05-11 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi Ed, There is IBAanalyst tool (now it is a part of HQbird), it shows sizes of tables and associated indices, see column Size http://ib-aid.com/images/iba_tables.gif Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon HQbird www.ib-aid.com I have a number of growing databases on my server and would like

Re: AW: [firebird-support] Firebird SuperClassic hangs

2017-05-09 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
in lock table, or related with excessive number of record versions (Max Versions in database statistics), or with other reasons. I would recommend to perform detailed investigation of the problem. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon www.ib-aid.com<http://www.ib-aid.com> Hi, we’re running Fi

Re: [firebird-support] Firebird SuperClassic hangs

2017-05-09 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Versions in database statistics), or with other reasons. I would recommend to perform detailed investigation of the problem. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon www.ib-aid.com Hi, we’re running Firebird 2.5.7 SuperClassic on Windows Server 2012R2 as part of a web application. Database

Re: [Firebird-docs] Doc funding - samples

2017-05-07 Thread Alexey Kovyazin
Hi Jiří, Here they are in Russian http://www.ibase.ru/files/articles/firebird_examples/how_to_create_aplication_firebird_delphi_example_rus.pdf http://www.ibase.ru/files/articles/firebird_examples/how_to_create_application_firebird_sql_entity_framework_net_example_rus.pdf

Re: [firebird-support] Firebird 3 superserver configuration for high load

2017-04-20 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi, Look at the English version of the page https://ib-aid.com/en/optimized-firebird-configuration/ Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon Those are for 2.5 aren't them? The only ones I found there are at https://ib-aid.com/br/optimized-firebird-configuration/ I was guessing there are different

Re: [firebird-support] Improve remote query speed on Windows Server 2012 VPS

2017-04-14 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi, Migrate to Firebird 3 - it has protocol improvements for high latency networks. With 2.5 you will never reach such good results as with FB3. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon www.ib-aid.com Hi. I'm testing Firebird 2.5 x64 on Windows Server 2012 R2 VPS From tests,remote access

Re: [firebird-support] Firebird 2.5 classic performance issue on linux64

2017-03-01 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
with low and moderate writes. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin > Hi guys, > > I'm just responding one more time because I want to mark this as solved > for me: > > Several things did the trick: > >* Upgrade Firebird to 2.5.7 (apparently there was a subquery bug in >

Re: [firebird-support] Firebird 2.5 classic performance issue on linux64

2017-02-26 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
that - start to check performance of your queries - non-optimal queries lead to 90% of performance problems. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon Hi everyone, I originally tried to post to this like I would to a normal mailing list. I've never seen an open source project that required me to have

Re: [firebird-support] FB 2.5 migrate to 3.0

2017-01-09 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi, Recompile all stored procedures and triggers in Firebird 3. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon HQbird www.ib-aid.com/hqbird Dear Sir/Madam, I am trying to migrate my database from 2.5 to 3.0 now. It was tested before and worked successfully with great help from firebird community

Re[2]: [firebird-support] How to change cpu utilization in Firebird engine?

2017-01-07 Thread Alexey Kovyazin (ak) a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi, There is no sense to tune or upgrade CPU or other hardware without prior analysis of slowness reasons. In 95% the reason is in non-optimal queries plans or absense of indices. -- Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon суббота, 07 января 2017г., 11:26 +03:00 от trsk...@yahoo.com [firebird

Re: [firebird-support] High Availability Firebird

2016-12-13 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi, Please take a look http://www.slideshare.net/ibsurgeon/failsafe-cluster-for-firebirdsql-and-something-more Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon Hi Everyone, First, I apologise if this isn't the correct group - please forgive me. I'm trying to find some contemporary (ie from in the last 24

Re: [firebird-support] Migration from Interbase 7.5 to Firebird 2.5.4

2016-12-01 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi, We did it several times for our clients. Not very difficult, but requires to detect and rewrite wrong SQL queries. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon Hi , It is my First question in this group. I would like to know if someone has accomplished a migration from Interbase 7.5 to Firebird

[firebird-support] Re: FB Conference 2016

2016-10-07 Thread Alexey Kovyazin (ak) a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi Andre! Thank you! Have a good vacation! We will definetely do more conferences and meet there! -- Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon пятница, 07 октября 2016г., 09:53 +02:00 от André Knappstein andre.knappst...@beta-eigenheim.de : >Hello Alexey, >hello Dmitry, > >I hope the

Re: [firebird-support] internal Firebird consistency check (decompression overran buffer (179), file: sqz.cpp line: 239)

2016-10-04 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi Ian, It seems that you have multi-volume database, is it correct? Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon Hi FB Support! We have been running FB since IB4.2 days and have only previously had any database corruption when we've had hardware issues...until recently, when I've seen this error

Re: [firebird-support] Slow Firebird performance in Azure with durable data disks (e.g., Premium Storage)

2016-08-30 Thread Alexey Kovyazin (ak) a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
, there are other options to deal with such performance problem - please contact me directly. -- Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon вторник, 30 августа 2016г., 19:18 +03:00 от Antti Nivala antti.niv...@m-files.com [firebird-support] firebird-support@yahoogroups.com : >  >Hi, >  >We've

[Firebird-docs] Broken link

2016-06-08 Thread Alexey Kovyazin
Hi, There is broken link (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/#dirlist) at the page http://firebirdsql.com/manual/docwritehowto-copyrights.html, using this text "http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/doc/src/sgml/; I assume that associated document should be

Re: [firebird-support] Issue with Database Cache Size on FB 3.0

2016-05-31 Thread Alexey Kovyazin (ak) a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi Fabian, Firebird caches only actually used pages. The small cache means that your application touches the small part of the database. -- Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon PS It is difficult and wrong to give you any direct advice without all details in hands - it can lead to worse

Re: [firebird-support] how to keep history of statements per transaction?

2016-05-31 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
/download/docs/hqbird2016r1userguide.pdf Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon www.ib-aid.com Hi, I'm looking for easy to use solution that can help me trace statements executed inside every transaction and keep them until transaction is active. Once it is closed(commit or rollback) statements

[firebird-support] Call for papers for Firebird Conference 2016

2016-05-27 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
ally after the conference. By submitting materials to the Firebird conference, you grant the Firebird Foundation permission to use, reproduce, audio/video record and distribute your materials. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon

Re: [firebird-support] Is Firebird 3 ready for Production?

2016-05-25 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi Fabian, Also I recommend you to try our optimized configuration file for FB3: http://ib-aid.com/en/optimized-firebird-configuration/ Regards, Alexey Hi Alexey Thank you for the comments. So far everything has gone ok, I fixed all the fields with ASCII charset at the FB 2.54 DB (changed

Re: [firebird-support] Is Firebird 3 ready for Production?

2016-05-25 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
we do migration for our clients, we use our automation tools which ensure that we have traced all problematic queries before going to production. I don't think it's possible to do such checking manually in case of big enough system - and comments in this thread confirm it. Regards, Alexey

Re: [firebird-support] Re: Question about few Firebird details

2016-05-24 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi, Yes, sure, my mistake - I should not answer questions so late and need to sleep more :) Regards, Alexey 23.05.2016 22:32, Alexey Kovyazin wrote: > > 44. This option turn off individual savepoints. Individual savepoints are never turned off. This option disables the root (trans

Re: [firebird-support] Question about few Firebird details

2016-05-23 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
(i1 integer not null primary key, iSort integer, BIGSTARTING VarchaR(2000)); insert there 10 mln records and do 2 queries as in the example. It will take 10 mins, and and you'll see the difference by yourself. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon Hi, https://ib-aid.com/en/articles/45-ways

[firebird-support] Firebird 3.0 Is Available Now!

2016-04-19 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
ur website http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-foundation/ For more information, contact: Steve Summers, sesumm...@firebirdsql.org, or Alexey Kovyazin, c...@firebirdsql.org

Re: [firebird-support] Performance issues moving to new server with later Firebird version

2016-04-19 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
-guide/ Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon HQbird We have a 127GB Firebird database that was running on Windows Server 2008 x64 with 16GB of RAM and Firebird SuperClassic v2.5.2.26539. The database has a page size of 8192 and buffers of 6144, and ODS version 11.2. Due to time

[firebird-support] Re[2]: [FB 2.1] Firebird engine seems to slow down on high load without utilizing hardware

2016-04-13 Thread Alexey Kovyazin (ak) a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Patrick, Definetely you need to compare real life loads. -- Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon среда, 13 апреля 2016г., 04:47 +03:00 от " thetr...@yahoo.com [firebird-support]" < firebird-support@yahoogroups.com> : >  > >Hey Alexey, >thanks you for our input. I t

[firebird-support] Re[2]: [FB 2.1] Firebird engine seems to slow down on high load without utilizing hardware

2016-04-13 Thread Alexey Kovyazin (ak) a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
ough random reads. >From Sintatica, every 20 Minutes a Peak in GC for >~15.000 transactions Sinatica uses really strange terms to describe transactions behaviour, and since it is an abandonen tool, nobody can explain how they are aligned with real situation. -- Regards, Alexey Kovyazin I

Re: [firebird-support] [FB 2.1] Firebird engine seems to slow down on high load without utilizing hardware

2016-04-12 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
06.2 IOPS] From our optimization practice we found that if you need to optimize only the single instance of the database, the most cost effective way is to upgrade to SSD first, and only then fix other problems. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon HQbird www.ib-aid.com hi, recently we

Re: [firebird-support] Find rarely used or unused indices

2016-04-08 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
, this idea is not so good as it appears - if index has good selectivity, Firebird usually uses it very effectively, until you have some abandoned parts in the database, where you never send SQL queries. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon www.ib-aid.com Hi What is the best way to go

Re: [firebird-support] help to repair a corrupted database

2016-04-07 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi, Gfix visits each page of the database, so 90 minutes is not so long if your disk subsystem is not based SSD. In general, follow these steps http://ib-aid.com/en/articles/how-to-repair-a-corrupt-firebird-database/ Check firebird.log too - gfix reports there its findings. Regards, Alexey

Re: [firebird-support] lock conflict deadlock

2016-04-05 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
get Snapshot. MonLogger saves all data from MON% tables for the investigation in the folder, and on the tab Transaction it highlights with red color those transactions which are potentially conflict, so you can review which application runs it. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon

Re: [firebird-support] What makes a database file size so big?

2016-03-29 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
due to versioning and blobs. DBinfo will give you information about distribution of pages with numbers and percentage of page types. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon www.ib-aid.com Hi, I use firebird 2.5 classic server on windows operating system. Because our database file is quite big (1

Re: [firebird-support] How do find duplicates in a table?

2016-02-04 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi, It is faster to use RDB$DB_KEY to find and delete duplicates. See more details here http://ib-aid.com/en/articles/how-to-find-and-delete-duplicate-records-in-firebird-database/ Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon I had finally figured it out just before your reply SELECT DISTINCT

Re: [firebird-support] An SQL query perform badly after firebird database file size grow beyond 8GB

2016-01-08 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi, There should a reason why optimizer chooses the wrong plan. Try to recalculate indices statistics. Also, for general performance, use optimized Firebird configuration: http://ib-aid.com/en/optimized-firebird-configuration/ Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon HQbird www.ib-aid.com I am

Re: [firebird-support] Firebird Download Malware

2016-01-05 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi, >The following file is affected: >http://sourceforge.net/projects/firebird/files/firebird-win64/2.5.5-Release/Firebird-2.5.5.26952_0_x64.exe/download I can confirm that Security Essential also reported this exe as Trojan.Win32/Varpes.J!plock Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon

Re: [firebird-support] Bad performance of Firebird in Windows Server 2012

2015-12-31 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi Eduardo, Can you please give links to these articles? Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon I searched in Google and found that, for instance, MS suggests not to install SQL Server in a domain controller, but for security reasons. In some articles, MS even recommends to disable disk write

Re: [firebird-support] Bad performance of Firebird in Windows Server 2012

2015-12-31 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
that cache is bad, just highlights the potential risk of data loss if caching without BBU is used. So, essentially you need to buy advanced disk controller and properly setup it - that's true. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon There is an interesting (and quite long) article about SQL Server

Re: [firebird-support] Firebird 3.x timings

2015-12-27 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
-25% better than 2.5 SC. Keep in mind that test is designed to simulate parallel write load. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon www.ib-aid.com Is FB 3.x much faster than FB 2.5.x? I'm looking for some timing and stability comparisons. Thanks.

Re: [firebird-support] UPDATE to same record causing heavy disk I/O

2015-12-23 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
kes Firebird to preserve versions of updated record. In general, avoid multiple updates of the same record - replace them with INSERTs and some scheduled delete, right before sweep. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon Since I began using Firebird, I have kept my transactions (type concurre

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