[email protected] [firebird-support] wrote: > I need your help and/or suggestions to solve a (maybe uncommon) task. > > I searched a lot on the web and I had some success using a tool called > fbclone but > this is definitely not a solution (due to extreme slowness of the > conversion, many days, > something must be wrong with this software) > > I have a large Firebird 2.5 DB (a couple of tables have few millions > records) to convert from WIN1251 charset to UTF8 charset. > > Is there a way to do efficiently this kind of conversion? (preferably > not using a intermediate text sql dump, that would not applicable > because the size of the DB). > > I'm using Firebird on a linux machine, and I really like to do the job > using a bash script, > but I can fallback also using a remote Windows pc. > > Thanks for any suggestions. > > Best regards. Hej,
maybe this one is of help: http://www.ibphoenix.com/resources/documents/design/doc_150 hth, Marcus > > >
