[firebird-support] non us characters in comments fail

2014-04-25 Thread Pekka Paunio
Folowing procedure update fails apparently because comment contains non us character 'ä'. Goes through without 'ä'. Should this be so? Pekka unsuccessful

Re: Odp: [firebird-support] Request for advice

2014-04-25 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 07:01:31 +0200, Thomas Beckmann thomas.beckm...@assfinet.de wrote: You are right: Blobs are stored in separate pages. But having blob fields inside tables with other fields forces these pages to be allocated when record is created - whether the blob will contain data or

Re: [firebird-support] non us characters in comments fail

2014-04-25 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 07:38:13 +, Pekka Paunio pekka.pau...@newsbrokers.fi wrote: Folowing procedure update fails apparently because comment contains non us character 'ä'. Goes through without 'ä'. Should this be so? What is your Firebird version, and which connection character set do you

RE: [firebird-support] non us characters in comments fail

2014-04-25 Thread Pekka Paunio
Yes, and it is running on Win 7 64 bit. Pekka From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com [mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Pekka Paunio Sent: 25. huhtikuuta 2014 10:56 To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [firebird-support] non us characters in comments fail

Re: [firebird-support] non us characters in comments fail

2014-04-25 Thread Tim Ward
Yes, I had one of these yesterday - part of a comment had been cut-and-pasted from Word, and contained something that looked like an ASCII minus but was in fact an em-rule. Whether you get a failure or not, and at which point of the process, depends, apparently, on all sorts of things,

RE: [firebird-support] non us characters in comments fail

2014-04-25 Thread Pekka Paunio
There seems to be all sorts of annoyances that have to do with character sets. For me it is not necessary to use non us characters but these things take time unnecessarily. Pekka From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com [mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Tim Ward Sent: 25.

Re: [firebird-support] non us characters in comments fail

2014-04-25 Thread Tim Ward
On 25/04/2014 09:14, Pekka Paunio wrote: There seems to be all sorts of annoyances that have to do with character sets. For me it is not necessary to use non us characters but these things take time unnecessarily. There is a Cambridge Computer Science exam question: Explain why even

Re: [firebird-support] non us characters in comments fail

2014-04-25 Thread Martijn Tonies (Upscene Productions)
Hello Tim, Yes, I had one of these yesterday - part of a comment had been cut-and-pasted from Word, and contained something that looked like an ASCII minus but was in fact an em-rule. Whether you get a failure or not, and at which point of the process, depends, apparently, on all sorts of

Re: [firebird-support] non us characters in comments fail

2014-04-25 Thread Tim Ward
I'm using v4.4.5.0. I can't check what others are using as they aren't in the office just right now, but I would expect them to be on the same version. On 25/04/2014 09:23, Martijn Tonies (Upscene Productions) wrote: Hello Tim, Yes, I had one of these yesterday - part of a comment had been

RE: [firebird-support] non us characters in comments fail

2014-04-25 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 07:55:35 +, Pekka Paunio pekka.pau...@newsbrokers.fi wrote: Charset is UTF8 and Server version is 2.5.2. Is that your *connection* character set or your *database* character set? Also how are you executing this script? It is very easy for a tool to use the connection

Re: [firebird-support] non us characters in comments fail

2014-04-25 Thread Martijn Tonies (Upscene Productions)
Hello Tim, Hmm, if Firebird allows you to store such characters, I would expect Database Workbench to support it. ;) If you can find a reproducible case, let me know. With regards, Martijn Tonies Upscene Productions http://www.upscene.com Download Database Workbench for Oracle, MS SQL

Re: [firebird-support] non us characters in comments fail

2014-04-25 Thread Tim Ward
This seems to be repeatable: (1) Store the procedure in the database from Database Workbench with connection character set none. (2) You can now read it no problem using the same instance of Database Workbench, but someone else who has Database Workbench's character set UTF8 then gets the

RE: [firebird-support] non us characters in comments fail

2014-04-25 Thread Pekka Paunio
You are right. I changed the connection charset to utf-8 and now it accepts non us charsets. Pekka From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com [mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Mark Rotteveel Sent: 25. huhtikuuta 2014 11:38 To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE:

[firebird-support] Re: Help with Update using Subquery

2014-04-25 Thread dixonepperson
Have you tried something like this? UPDATE Table_1 a SET a.Column = 1 WHERE a.PK IN (SELECT b.PK FROM Table_1 b WHERE conditon = criteria)

[firebird-support] Re: Help with Update using Subquery

2014-04-25 Thread Craig_Cox
That did the trick.I was leaving out the a.PK IN portion. Thanks

Re: Odp: [firebird-support] Request for advice

2014-04-25 Thread Alexandre Benson Smith
Em 25/4/2014 01:31, liviusliv...@poczta.onet.pl escreveu: Hi, But you also misunderstud advice. Blobs are not stored in table with its other fields. In record exists only blob id and blob is stored on separate pages. Then moving it to separate table do nothing. But i always prefere store

[firebird-support] Building from source on both SCO and Solaris

2014-04-25 Thread Mitchell Nelson
All, I got handed a project to get a v5.5 IB database updated and migrated to Solaris (x86 for dev, T5 LDOM for prod). At this time the plan is to keep it on IB/Firebird but use more modern (supported) platform.  First step of the project is to build a new working environment to do the