Yes, it can. Just remember you can't be connected when you do the restore. It's a
handy thing to do for clients who are not in an environment where there is a system
administrator.
I've got a small util that just calls GBAK.EXE with the appropriate params and does
the some checking for any errors in the log file.
-----Original Message-----
From: Nahum Wild [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 1:57 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
Subject: RE: [DUG]: Interbase problem??
Can this be done programmatically? or does someone actually have to manually
do it?
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Tuesday, 18 April 2000 13:18
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>
> A Backup/Restore rebuilds indexes and updates the statistics. You should
> always do a backup/restore after any large data manipulation.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Coulter [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 9:29 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> Subject: [DUG]: Interbase problem??
>
> Hi all.
>
> We have a wee utility that will generate 64,000 records and put them
> into
> our interbase db.
> Thats fine. BUT when we doa select count(id) from TheTable it takes
> ages to
> come back, infact I have been waiting arounf 15mins for the data to
> comback
> as I type this.
> The problem happens on both our server and local servers.
>
> The weired thing is, if we doa backup (via interbase) and restore
> it, its
> fine !
>
> I suspect that our indexing is gettinging out of wack, but we only
> have PK's
> and FK's on the fields.
>
> Has anyone had this issue before, or got any suggestions ??
>
> Cheers, Jeremy Coulter
>
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