Re: [firebird-support] Detecting / Removal of Firebird

2013-08-20 Thread Lester Caine
craigmas...@btinternet.com wrote: Can anyone help with how to detect if Firebird is installed on a server? A recent health check here has detected that an older version of one of our applications used to use Firebird and there are fragments that need removing. However, all attempts to find

Re: [firebird-support] Datatypes are not comparable in expression CASE when using TIMESTAMPS

2013-08-20 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On 13-8-2013 06:41, Maya Opperman wrote: Mark Rotteveel wrote: I am unable to reproduce it. Could you create a simple reproduction script that creates the table, adds the testdata and includes the query? My reproduction is: CREATE TABLE int_date_table ( intfield INTEGER,

Re: [firebird-support] Detecting / Removal of Firebird

2013-08-20 Thread marcus
craigmas...@btinternet.com wrote: Can anyone help with how to detect if Firebird is installed on a server? A recent health check here has detected that an older version of one of our applications used to use Firebird and there are fragments that need removing. However, all attempts to find

[firebird-support] Temporary directories

2013-08-20 Thread Hugo Eyng
Hello. I am trying to increase the speed of my queries. Firebird 2.5 Windows Server 2008 32 GB RAM I use 10GB of ram as a ram disk drive. I wrote query that takes 2:45 minutes running _*without*_ the TempDirectories=R:\TEMP (ram disk drive) and the same query takes 1:13 minutes running

RE: [firebird-support] Temporary directories

2013-08-20 Thread Leyne, Sean
Hugo, Hello. I am trying to increase the speed of my queries. Firebird 2.5 Windows Server 2008 32 GB RAM I use 10GB of ram as a ram disk drive. I wrote query that takes 2:45 minutes running _*without*_ the TempDirectories=R:\TEMP (ram disk drive) and the same query takes 1:13

Re: [firebird-support] Temporary directories

2013-08-20 Thread Hugo Eyng
Sean, I understand what you are saying. But, my question is, or should be, more generic. Something like: If I have a lot of RAM available, how could I use it in a way to increase the database speed (specially queries). I found out that chaging DefaultDbCachePages from 75 to 750 the queries