[firebird-support] (thanks Mark R. from 3rdshiftcoder re: firebird questions)

2015-09-14 Thread thirdshiftco...@yahoo.com [firebird-support]
Hi Mark Rotteveel and group - Thanks for all the replies. I am in a vicious work cycle (joking). I will study your replies tonight. thanks so much, jim

Re: [firebird-support] HUGE Log File

2015-09-14 Thread chubmast...@mac.com [firebird-support]
And thank you

Re: [firebird-support] HUGE Log File

2015-09-14 Thread Helen Borrie hele...@iinet.net.au [firebird-support]
At 10:14 a.m. 15/09/2015, chubmast...@mac.com [firebird-support] wrote: >Im no IT guy so bear with me. I have a 2009 iMac running os x 10.8It has >a 640 gb hard drive. Firebird.log is taking up 424 gb. I have a digital >X-ray program that uses firebird as it's framework. They deny they

Re: [firebird-support] HUGE Log File

2015-09-14 Thread Helen Borrie hele...@iinet.net.au [firebird-support]
At 11:58 a.m. 15/09/2015, chubmast...@mac.com [firebird-support] wrote: >Actually its a 424 gb log file that increased by 300 gb since sept 10, 2015 Yes, sorry, I noticed that after I posted. ;-) It won't do any harm to open your new log file in a day or two, and see just what is happening

Re: [firebird-support] HUGE Log File

2015-09-14 Thread chubmast...@mac.com [firebird-support]
Any way I trashed the file without emptying , restarted and everything seems to work. I'll empty it when convinced no more problems. I wonder if there is any chance my mac only thought it thought the file was that large.

[firebird-support] finally getting it (a little) - transactions!

2015-09-14 Thread thirdshiftco...@yahoo.com [firebird-support]
Hi- After getting stuck over the weekend, I am getting unstuck thanks to Mark. R, the group, and the Internet. I watched a slide share presentation done by a cool Russian on transactions. It helped me visualize what the heck is going on. I didn't really understand it all that well before the

Re: [firebird-support] reword question re: selects in firebird in transactions

2015-09-14 Thread Mark Rotteveel m...@lawinegevaar.nl [firebird-support]
On 13-9-2015 20:01, thirdshiftco...@yahoo.com [firebird-support] wrote: > I am just practicing. I might have posted a confusing question before. > > I want to see how selects behave differently with being in different > isolation contexts rather than just running the default snapshot like in >

Re: [firebird-support] read only select statements and isolation

2015-09-14 Thread Mark Rotteveel m...@lawinegevaar.nl [firebird-support]
On 13-9-2015 04:33, thirdshiftco...@yahoo.com [firebird-support] wrote: > I read through and practiced with all types of read committed > transactions with and without wait. I understand those scenarios as they > apply to read write with, for i.e., update statements. > > I am trying to figure out

Re: [firebird-support] read only select statements and isolation

2015-09-14 Thread Mark Rotteveel m...@lawinegevaar.nl [firebird-support]
On 14-9-2015 09:45, Mark Rotteveel m...@lawinegevaar.nl [firebird-support] wrote: > On 13-9-2015 04:33, thirdshiftco...@yahoo.com [firebird-support] wrote: >> I read through and practiced with all types of read committed >> transactions with and without wait. I understand those scenarios as they