Re: [firebird-support] Character sets and collations of columns

2016-08-29 Thread Stefan Heymann li...@stefanheymann.de [firebird-support]
Tomasz, > One of the legacy databases I happen to maintain has character sets and > collations messed up. [...] For a database that is messed up like this, I'd go the clean way and use a pump. That would also give you the opportunity to change it to Unicode (UTF-8) at the same time, which is a tr

Re: [firebird-support] deploy Windows Application to access Firebird database

2016-08-29 Thread Stefan Heymann li...@stefanheymann.de [firebird-support]
> Does it apply to remote servers also such as > www.myserver.com:/opt/database/fbdata.fdb > The release note README file in the embbeded zip says: > [...] You are mixing up access to a remote database (only fbclient.dll needed) and the Embedded Firebird server (fbembed.dll, renamed to fbclient.dl

[firebird-support] How to build up TPB with IXpbBuilder properly?

2016-08-29 Thread Gabor Boros gaborbo...@yahoo.com [firebird-support]
Hi All, The second code fragment works like a charm (the transaction started properly with the given parametes). The first not and return this error message: "invalid format for transaction parameter block -wrong version of transaction parameter block" What's wrong with the IXpbBuilder? *1* v

Re: [firebird-support] Number of Firebird Users

2016-08-29 Thread Stefan Heymann li...@stefanheymann.de [firebird-support]
> I have INSERT about 10 records in a Table, the size of the FB Database > grew up to 15MB > I DELETE the records the size remains 15MB. That is normal. A Firebird database is organized in pages that are allocated when needed. When you delete the records, the pages will be marked as free and

Re: [firebird-support] Re: After update trigger: the same values for new.somefiled and old.somefield

2016-08-29 Thread Helen Borrie hele...@iinet.net.au [firebird-support]
> 29.08.2016 10:24, patrick_mar...@yahoo.com [firebird-support] wrote: >> Somehow I've thought that an after update trigger only fires once when all >> the changes >> have been made and comitted. >DML triggers are fired on every change of every record. And they fire BEFORE the **transaction

Re: [firebird-support] Re: After update trigger: the same values for new.somefiled and old.somefield

2016-08-29 Thread Dimitry Sibiryakov s...@ibphoenix.com [firebird-support]
29.08.2016 10:24, patrick_mar...@yahoo.com [firebird-support] wrote: > Somehow I've thought that an after update trigger only fires once when all > the changes > have been made and comitted. DML triggers are fired on every change of every record. -- WBR, SD. ---

[firebird-support] Re: After update trigger: the same values for new.somefiled and old.somefield

2016-08-29 Thread patrick_mar...@yahoo.com [firebird-support]
Hi guys, thanks for the suggestions and ideas, it helped to track it down. It was not directly another trigger or procedure updating the record in question, but something similar : I had altered an existing trigger. There was an if-block checking a field A for being not null and executing some

Re: [firebird-support] Help needed with grouping, GROUP BY and LIST()

2016-08-29 Thread Mike Ro miker...@gmail.com [firebird-support]
On 29/08/2016 00:28, 'Leyne, Sean' s...@broadviewsoftware.com [firebird-support] wrote: What’s performance like? So far I have only tested with a very limited set of data (approx. 30 records) so haven't noticed any performance issues. FlameRobin reports sub 0.01s times! The maximum number o

Re: [firebird-support] Number of Firebird Users

2016-08-29 Thread Alain Bastien alainbast...@gmail.com [firebird-support]
I have INSERT about 10 records in a Table, the size of the FB Database grew up to 15MB I DELETE the records the size remains 15MB. After BACKUP and RESTORE thru FlameRobin then the size was reduce to 788Kb Is this normal ? or can it me done automatically within the settings and configs *