Re: [firebird-support] IMPORTANT MESSGAGE: This group is moving

2020-05-02 Thread Lester Caine les...@lsces.uk [firebird-support]
On 02/05/2020 00:29, Helen Borrie hele...@tpg.com.au [firebird-support] wrote: > Unfortunately we cannot migrate the current Yahoo! subscribers, and you will > need to resubscribe yourself, in one of two ways: The other problem with pigging Google is their drive to make us use a Gmail account.

Re: [firebird-support] Potential for improvements / optimization for the use case below?

2020-04-02 Thread Lester Caine les...@lsces.uk [firebird-support]
On 02/04/2020 08:12, Patrick Marten patrick_mar...@yahoo.com [firebird-support] wrote: > There was an other procedure that took long, and I was able to > drasticaly improve it by adding one multi-segment index, but all my > attempts to do the same in the case above didn't have much impact so

Re: [firebird-support] Will we move when yahoo Groups close theirs doors?

2019-10-23 Thread Lester Caine les...@lsces.uk [firebird-support]
On 22/10/2019 21:17, Daniel Miller dmil...@amfes.com [firebird-support] wrote: > I'm curious...why not use Sourceforge mailing lists? Are they currently working properly? I've not been able to get in on my account for some time after the last change of ownership I think ... and the advertising

Re: [firebird-support] Will we move when yahoo Groups close theirs doors?

2019-10-21 Thread Lester Caine les...@lsces.uk [firebird-support]
On 21/10/2019 16:05, Kevin Stanton kevin.stan...@rdb-solutions.com [firebird-support] wrote: > Oregon Delphi Users Groups has the same issue. Looks like that group is > moving tohttp://groups.io Virtually all of the email lists I have used since eGroup days are affected by this farce. It

Re: [firebird-support] Wrong characters ...

2019-05-13 Thread Lester Caine les...@lsces.uk [firebird-support]
tarted looking into that and just how to migrate from on database to another that the reason for a different problem came to light ... Something of a heads up s to the problem, but the question is just how does one know just how to migrate existing data? > On 11-5-2019 17:22, Lester Caine les...

[firebird-support] fb_lock_print against open alias

2019-05-12 Thread Lester Caine les...@lsces.uk [firebird-support]
I've got firebirdwebadmin running and hooked up so I can work on various bugs due to PHP changes, but I'm struggling with the 'admin' tab. The php fbird_backup()function can't find the database which is currently oprn, and I'm using employee for all the testing, but the first problem is working

[firebird-support] Wrong characters ...

2019-05-11 Thread Lester Caine les...@lsces.uk [firebird-support]
With the sorting out of unicode encoded text I've just hit a related funny. I've been given a quantity of original PageMaker documents which include a quantity of poetry for which the layout and punctuation is a substantial part of the content. I'd had to find the original fonts, or so I

Re: [firebird-support] Database 'conversion'

2019-05-11 Thread Lester Caine les...@lsces.uk [firebird-support]
On 11/05/2019 07:54, Hannes Streicher hstreic...@gmx.de [firebird-support] wrote: > Guten Tag Lester caineles...@lsces.uk [firebird-support], > > Strings with charset none need only 1 byte per char in the receive buffer of > your software > UFT-8 will reserve 4 Bytes per char , regardless if

Re: [firebird-support] Database 'conversion'

2019-05-11 Thread Lester Caine les...@lsces.uk [firebird-support]
On 11/05/2019 07:27, Mark Rotteveel m...@lawinegevaar.nl [firebird-support] wrote: >> I think I'm simply looking at creating a new empty UTF8 copy of >> the database and pumping over from the NONE version? > Not that I'm aware of. Creating a new database and pumping the data is > the best

[firebird-support] Database 'conversion'

2019-05-10 Thread Lester Caine les...@lsces.uk [firebird-support]
For 20 odd years I've only ever created databases with a charset of NONE and because of the way PHP works the odd UTF8 string just works as raw data. Strange names and address strings just work and there is normally only a problem when the string was corrupt anyway. Now I think it's time I