Not to be rude or anything, but does FirstAID Extractor decrypt all types
of BLOBs?
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 2:17 AM, supp...@ibknowledgebase.com <
supp...@ibknowledgebase.com> wrote:
> Hi Stuart,
>
> Download FirstAID from www.ib-aid.com, run FirstAID Extractor and open
> your database. It "decrypts" data from Firebird database using its internal
> structures and shows you the values of fields in tables' records.
>
> Regards,
> Alexey Kovyazin
> IBSurgeon
>
>
> OK, but version numbers tell me nothing. What I am looking for is an
> explanation of how Firebird (the package) can tell which bytes belong to
> which fields. Somehow Firebird must be able to tell the difference between
> the following two records:
>
> FirstName LastName
> 'Jim' 'Starkey'
> 'Jim Starkey' ''
>
>
> It may well be that it was coded in the Interbase days and has not been
> looked up until now. Or maybe it's the blob in the "RDB$DESCRIPTOR" field,
> in which case I do not know how to decode it into text.
>
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 7:49 AM, James Starkey <j...@jimstarkey.net> wrote:
>
>> No for all questions. The record is a) run length encoded and b)
>> contains a format version number that must be looked up in rdb$formats.
>>
>>
>> On Sunday, November 30, 2014, Stuart Simon <stuart...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sunday, November 30, 2014, Stuart Simon <stuart...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello Firebird Developers:
>>>> Pardon me, but I found the structs I was looking for in the source
>>>> code (it was hard!). I don't want to bog you down with novice questions,
>>>> but I want to know two things:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Is there a field (e.g., "fp_field_type") in the field or record
>>>> header that would indicate the field type?
>>>> 2. What indicates the end (or, alternatively, size in bytes) of a
>>>> non-final field in a record with two or more fields?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you!
>>>>
>>>> Stuart
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Stuart Simon
>>>> stuart...@gmail.com
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Stuart Simon
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Jim Starkey
>>
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