RE: [firebird-support] Not able to retrieve the data from Table

2012-05-21 Thread Svein Erling Tysvær
I am using the FlameRobin tool to execute the query. I write the select query like select first 100 * from XXX , I am able to get the result. But when use one more query select first 110 * from XXX , I am not able to get the data, still it is in process to get the Data. I am surprise for

Re: [firebird-support] unable to allocate memory from operating system

2012-05-21 Thread Alexey Kovyazin
Hello John, You have hit transaction limit of Firebird. To prevent it, make backup/restore more often. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon Our main database is Firebird 2.1 running on a windows 2k8 server In the middle of the night with no real users, a single program was running updating

Re: [firebird-support] unable to allocate memory from operating system

2012-05-21 Thread Thomas Steinmaurer
Hi John, Our main database is Firebird 2.1 running on a windows 2k8 server In the middle of the night with no real users, a single program was running updating data from a file into the database. This runs every night, there were no changes to the programs and automatic server updates are

[firebird-support] Access 32 bit DB on 64 bit system?

2012-05-21 Thread Kjell Rilbe
Hi, I've archived some old FDB files since my Win2000 (32 bit) days, and unfortunately some of them are available only in FDB form, not as a backup file. Is there any way I can get access to them on my current 64 bit system with only 64 bit Firebird installed? No problem having to go via

[firebird-support] Re: unable to allocate memory from operating system

2012-05-21 Thread tomsee7
Hi John, Something to look at is any heavy use of blobs and long-running transactions within the application as these may point to your problem. HTH, Tom --- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, dr_john_mp dr.john@... wrote: Our main database is Firebird 2.1 running on a windows 2k8 server

RE: [firebird-support] Access 32 bit DB on 64 bit system?

2012-05-21 Thread Michael Möhle
If you don’t want to install the 32 Bit Version on your 64 Bit (Windows 7) simply install Windows Virtual PC and XP 32 in it. For Windows 7 Professional/Ultimate/Enterprise it’s free. I use it for such things. http://windows.microsoft.com/de-de/windows7/products/features/windows-xp-mod e

Re: [firebird-support] Access 32 bit DB on 64 bit system?

2012-05-21 Thread Thomas Steinmaurer
I've archived some old FDB files since my Win2000 (32 bit) days, and unfortunately some of them are available only in FDB form, not as a backup file. Is there any way I can get access to them on my current 64 bit system with only 64 bit Firebird installed? The database file is binary

Re: [firebird-support] Access 32 bit DB on 64 bit system?

2012-05-21 Thread Thomas Steinmaurer
I've archived some old FDB files since my Win2000 (32 bit) days, and unfortunately some of them are available only in FDB form, not as a backup file. Is there any way I can get access to them on my current 64 bit system with only 64 bit Firebird installed? The database file is binary

[firebird-support] Internal Firebird question.

2012-05-21 Thread Fabiano
Hi all. I have a question about how Firebird internally updates a record. Here an example: Create table test(cod integer, name varchar(50)) Commit; Insert into test(cod, name) values (1, 'Big description 1'); Insert into test(cod, name) values (2, 'Big description 2'); Insert into

Re: [firebird-support] Internal Firebird question.

2012-05-21 Thread Dmitry Kuzmenko
Hello, Fabiano! Monday, May 21, 2012, 9:08:04 PM, you wrote: F I have a question about how Firebird internally updates a record. it uses versioning. F Insert into test(cod, name) values (1, 'Big description 1'); F Insert into test(cod, name) values (2, 'Big description 2'); F Insert into

RES: [firebird-support] Internal Firebird question.

2012-05-21 Thread Fabiano
Dmitry thanks for answers. I understand fine. But I made a new test: After deleting cod=2, I make a backup with garbage collect set and do a 'select count(*) from test' to ensure all rows are touched. Then: Insert into test(cod, name) values (2, 'Small 2'); Again, it does not reuse the

[firebird-support] Embedded Firebird leaves a lot of temp files behind

2012-05-21 Thread Alec Swan
Hello, Our customers are complaining that there are lots of (GBs) temp files written by Firebird in temp directory. Is there a way to have embedded Firebird 2.5 to clean up temp files, e.g. lock files, after it's done with them? Thanks, Alec

[firebird-support] Re: Embedded Firebird leaves a lot of temp files behind

2012-05-21 Thread Alec Swan
I found the following setting in http://ibexpert.net/ibe/index.php?n=Doc.ConfiguringFirebird#FBConf: TempDirectories = c:\temp 1 I am assuming that 1 is in bytes, correct? What happens when this limit is reached? Thanks, Alec On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Alec Swan

Re: [firebird-support] unable to allocate memory from operating system

2012-05-21 Thread Michael Ludwig
Alexey Kovyazin schrieb am 21.05.2012 um 15:04 (+0400): You have hit transaction limit of Firebird. To prevent it, make backup/restore more often. What makes you think so? And why would that make the memory usage rise to nearly 100% ? Also, the limit is 2**64, that's pretty high. Re:

Re: RES: [firebird-support] Internal Firebird question.

2012-05-21 Thread Dmitry Kuzmenko
Hello, Fabiano! Monday, May 21, 2012, 10:32:32 PM, you wrote: F After deleting cod=2, I make a backup with garbage collect set and do a Don't be mistaken. gbak -b makes select * from table and this causes attempt server to check for a garbage and try to collect it, and gbak -b -g disables

RES: RES: [firebird-support] Internal Firebird question.

2012-05-21 Thread Fabiano
Dmitry, I Just curious! My application has a good transaction control and old record versions is not a problem. I read the this PDF http://www.firebirdsql.org/manual/fb-internals.html http://www.firebirdsql.org/manual/fb-internals.html and start making tests to see how this works. I

RES: [firebird-support] Internal Firebird question.

2012-05-21 Thread Fabiano
Thanks Ann. Really I think that it does not use free space very often because is not ease of use as you say in topic 3. I'm just curious! [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Re: RES: RES: [firebird-support] Internal Firebird question.

2012-05-21 Thread Dmitry Kuzmenko
Hello, Fabiano! Monday, May 21, 2012, 11:49:01 PM, you wrote: F I think Firebird uses the best approach for deleted records but I don't F understand much why. real SQL server must have transaction control and conform to ACID requirements. It can be done by different mechanisms - locking,