[firebird-support] Firebird and RAID

2013-02-03 Thread garethm
Hi, What factors do we need to be aware of relating to Firebird and RAID controllers? We have a customer using a Firebird 2.0.6 Classic Server database on a single disk connected to an IBM ServeRAID M5015 SAS/SATA Controller. The disk is not part of any RAID array. The server is running Window

[firebird-support] Query slowness

2013-06-02 Thread garethm
Hi, I am currently using Firebird 2.5.1.26351 using Classic Server 64-bit. The database file was created with Firebird 2.5.1.26351 and is 546MB with a page size of 8192. The server and client are both running on my Windows 7 64-bit development machine. I ran the following query using FlameRobi

[firebird-support] Understanding query performance changes

2013-06-18 Thread garethm
Hi, In upgrading from Firebird 2.0 to Firebird 2.5, I have a query that has dramatically changed performance. It would be great if I could understand the performance information given in FlameRobin, and how this can be used to return the query to its former performance. The statistics reported

[firebird-support] Re: Understanding query performance changes

2013-06-19 Thread garethm
Hi Set, Thank you very much for your help! Your query runs much faster than even the original query did, and is easier to understand. Regards, Gareth --- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Svein Erling Tysvær wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >In upgrading from Firebird 2.0 to Firebird 2.5, I have a qu

[firebird-support] Difference between embedded and classic server behaviour

2013-09-11 Thread garethm
Hi, When attempting to run queries with a large number of expressions in the where clause, I have found a difference in behaviour between embedded and classic server: Note that this is a simplified case from my application's actual behaviour. I am using Firebird 2.5.2 Security Update 1 build

[firebird-support] RE: Difference between embedded and classic server behaviour

2013-09-17 Thread GARETHM