RE: [firebird-support] Migrate from 1.5 to 2.1 or 2.5: Which is the best choice?

2012-09-11 Thread Maya Opperman
I'm evaluating the choice of migrating a 1.5 Firebird database either to 2.1 or to 2.5. I've readed the release notes of both versions but I can't find no elements that help to decide which one could be best choice. Personally, I upgraded from 2.1 to 2.5.1 because of the new features I needed

[firebird-support] ANN Early Bird registration for Firebird Conference 2012 is now open

2012-09-11 Thread Alexey Kovyazin
Hello All, As you know, Firebird Conference 2012 will take place in Luxembourg, October 26-27. http://firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-conference-2012/ Early Bird registration for Firebird Conference 2012 in Luxembourg is now open. For those who register before October 1 there are discounts from

[firebird-support] Updating Null Column values Will Raise an Exception -605

2012-09-11 Thread sfsyseu
ENDDATE is date and was created after the table being created and it allows nulls so it filled the colum with nulls. So i want to set ENDDATE then i do : UPDATE MYTABLE SET ENDDATE=CURRENT_DATE WHERE MYID=1 Error -605 value null This wasnt supposed to happen ? It should Set

Re: [firebird-support] Re: Desktop Application For Centralized Firebird Database...

2012-09-11 Thread Alexandre Benson Smith
Em 6/9/2012 17:54, Aage Johansen escreveu: Vishal wrote: ... Here, my doubt is Using Delphi 5 and Firebird database, is it possible for all the instances of this application which are installed at different cities could access one centralized database ? If yes then HOW ? ... You

Re: [firebird-support] Re: Desktop Application For Centralized Firebird Database...

2012-09-11 Thread Bogusław Brandys
W dniu 2012-09-06 22:54, Aage Johansen pisze: Vishal wrote: ... Here, my doubt is Using Delphi 5 and Firebird database, is it possible for all the instances of this application which are installed at different cities could access one centralized database ? If yes then HOW ? ... You

Re: [firebird-support] Re: Desktop Application For Centralized Firebird Database...

2012-09-11 Thread Vishal Tiwari
But if I have internet not an Intranet facility, then also would it work ? From: Aage Johansen aagjo...@online.no To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, 7 September 2012 2:24 AM Subject: [firebird-support] Re: Desktop Application For Centralized

Re: [firebird-support] Re: Desktop Application For Centralized Firebird Database...

2012-09-11 Thread Kjell Rilbe
Den 2012-09-09 06:20 skrev Vishal Tiwari såhär: But if I have internet not an Intranet facility, then also would it work ? Intranet or internet doesn't really matter re works or doesn't work. Internet has higher latency, which is nog very good for Firebird's chatty protocol, but it does

[firebird-support] Is there an auto-conversion for text blobs while reading with isc_get_segment?

2012-09-11 Thread Daniel Vogelbacher
Hi, is there an auto conversion from the character set of a text blob to the encoding set for the connection? For example, what happens if my client connection character set is UTF-8, but the text blob column has ISO-8859-1? Did isc_get_segement() return UTF-8 data or ISO-8859-1? As far as I