Re: [firebird-support] Delphi XE - Unicode

2012-06-22 Thread Tomas Krejzek
Hi, I'm using BuilderXE and UTF8 FB database. I prefere dbExpress components for unicode support. Let you try them. But if you use TDBEdit, TDBGrid, ... you need to use TDataSetProvider and TClientDataSet (and distribute midas.dll together with your application) Best regards, Tom Dne

[firebird-support] output from SQL

2012-06-22 Thread ktadimeti
Dear All I wish to output text from a stored procedure. How do I do this? Is there an alternative to the DBMS_OUTPUT package in oracle, or even a simple PRINT statement? Thanks

RE: [firebird-support] Left join and computed columns

2012-06-22 Thread Rick Debay
thanks -Original Message- From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com [mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Doug Chamberlin Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 4:12 PM To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [firebird-support] Left join and computed columns On 6/21/12

[firebird-support] Firebird prevents system from booting

2012-06-22 Thread sboydlns
I am having the strangest problem with by system. First, I am running Windows 7 64-bit with all the latest patches. I am also running Firebird 2.1.4.18393. If I set the Firebird Guardian to start automatically, my system refuses to boot. It will come up part way and just hang before it

RE: [firebird-support] can I restore a level 1 backup on its own?

2012-06-22 Thread Leyne, Sean
Gary, I am in the process of moving servers and the restore time of the 53GB backup is a going to cause a timing problem I have made a level 0 backup of the database, 53GB, I would like to restore the level 0 backup in the meantime, and on the night of the server swap do a level 1 backup

RE: [firebird-support] Firebird prevents system from booting - Email found in subject

2012-06-22 Thread Leyne, Sean
Stephen, If I set the Firebird Guardian to start automatically, my system refuses to boot. The Guardian is not necessary for more recent Windows versions, due to changes to the Services functionality which supports the automatic restart (within 1 minute) of a service which has ended abended.

Re: [firebird-support] output from SQL

2012-06-22 Thread Tomasz Tyrakowski
On 2012-06-22 14:09, ktadimeti wrote: I wish to output text from a stored procedure. How do I do this? Is there an alternative to the DBMS_OUTPUT package in oracle, or even a simple PRINT statement? I'm not sure I understood you correctly, but you can just select rows from a selectable

Re: [firebird-support] output from SQL

2012-06-22 Thread Ann Harrison
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 9:09 AM, ktadimeti tadimetikes...@yahoo.com wrote: I wish to output text from a stored procedure. How do I do this? Is there an alternative to the DBMS_OUTPUT package in oracle, or even a simple PRINT statement? You need to display the text from the client, not the

Re: [firebird-support] output from SQL

2012-06-22 Thread Milan Babuskov
ktadimeti wrote: I wish to output text from a stored procedure. How do I do this? There are different way, depending what you really need: 1. You can create a selectable stored procedure: create procedure p1 returns (output_text varchar(3000)) as begin for select something into :output_text do

Re: [firebird-support] can I restore a level 1 backup on its own?

2012-06-22 Thread Gary Benade
Hi Sean Does that mean I can do a level 0 restore overnight, and then a level 1 restore tomorrow night? In other words, is doing this: nbackup -R mydb.fdb level_0.nbk level_1.nbk the same as doing this: nbackup -R mydb.fdb level_0.nbk nbackup -R mydb.fdb level_1.nbk Thanks for you

RE: [firebird-support] can I restore a level 1 backup on its own?

2012-06-22 Thread Leyne, Sean
Gary, Does that mean I can do a level 0 restore overnight, and then a level 1 restore tomorrow night? In other words, is doing this: nbackup -R mydb.fdb level_0.nbk level_1.nbk the same as doing this: nbackup -R mydb.fdb level_0.nbk nbackup -R mydb.fdb level_1.nbk Yes. Sean

[firebird-support] question on distinct clause

2012-06-22 Thread bwc3068
hi all-- (always a great place to get answers!!) here is the sql I'd prefer to use (a join) select distinct t.plantkey, t.mostrecent, t.tagnumber, t.datetested, t.equipmentkey, o.equipmentkey, o.datetested from reliefd t join reliefd o on t.equipmentkey=o.equipmentkey where t.mostrecent='T'

Re: [firebird-support] question on distinct clause

2012-06-22 Thread Ann Harrison
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 3:28 PM, bwc3068 av...@telusplanet.net wrote: hi all-- (always a great place to get answers!!) here is the sql I'd prefer to use (a join) select distinct t.plantkey, t.mostrecent, t.tagnumber, t.datetested, t.equipmentkey, o.equipmentkey, o.datetested from reliefd