Re: [firebird-support] RE: Table update performance dropped significantly within few days.

2014-01-16 Thread Alexandre Benson Smith
Hi ! Em 16/1/2014 04:13, brucedickin...@wp.pl escreveu: Hi guys. Yesterday I was trying to figure out what is the cause of my problem. And I've noticed that two months ago my colleague added one trigger on this table. The trigger is: SET TERM ^ ; ALTER TRIGGER CLIENT_LM INACTIVE AFTER

Re: [firebird-support] Confused about delta files

2014-01-16 Thread Stefan Heymann
Looking at my production system I see that I have an FDB file and an FDB.delta. The date of the FDB is May 2nd, 2013. The date of the delta is today. These are just 2 separate databases. Firebird does not require a special extension, .fdb ist just the usual extension to use. From the names I

Re: [firebird-support] Confused about delta files [SOLVED]

2014-01-16 Thread Maury Markowitz
Whoa, this is interesting... My first attempt to move the DB was to simply copy over the FDB. That didn't work, so that's when I went down the nbackup rabbit hole. As it turns out, nbackup is the problem, not the solution... When I tried to re-attach the FDB file on the new server I got a file

Re: [firebird-support] Confused about delta files [SOLVED]

2014-01-16 Thread Paul Vinkenoog
Hello Maury, When I tried to re-attach the FDB file on the new server I got a file not found error. But looking in some of the logging files I found... Reason: I/O error for file CreateFile (open) D:\FISHBOWL\DATABASE\DATA\ASSOLAR.FDB.delta Error while trying to open file null A.

Re: [firebird-support] Confused about delta files [SOLVED]

2014-01-16 Thread Maury Markowitz
On 2014-01-16, at 10:11 AM, Paul Vinkenoog wrote: What exactly are you missing in the documentation? Notice that delta files are normally very short-lived. That's the issue right there. As it is clearly possible that these are not *always* short lived, this should be mentioned along with

Re: [firebird-support] RE: Garbage collection / sweep not happening on super classic

2014-01-16 Thread Ann Harrison
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 4:42 PM, rmcgi...@oceris.com wrote: Ok, running the gfix -sweep with everyone logged out did work and only took about 5 minutes. I believe the issue came from me only trying to run the sweep one time and a transaction being stuck. I never tried to run sweep AFTER

[firebird-support] RE: Table update performance dropped significantly within few days.

2014-01-16 Thread brucedickinson
You should check wich application holds the oldest transaction open, and fix it. Thank you, is it possible that this transaction is just hanging and an application which started it,has been already terminated? If I am not mistaken, I can somehow check out some system table for active

[firebird-support] RE: Table update performance dropped significantly within few days.

2014-01-16 Thread brucedickinson
Do you know if or when the trigger was ACTIVATED? It's very hard to see how deactivating a hungry trigger like that one could *degrade* performance. I am sorry Helen for confusing you. I've posted DDL for already deactivated trigger which I've deactivated yesterday. The trigger was

[firebird-support] Multiple Embedded Connections

2014-01-16 Thread Alan McDonald
I notice that it is now possible to connect to a database via the embedded server and simultaneously connect via other embedded processes to the same database file. This was not possible in previous version - the second process would be locked out. Can someone lead me to an explanation of how

Re: [firebird-support] Multiple Embedded Connections

2014-01-16 Thread Paul Vinkenoog
Hi Alan, I notice that it is now possible to connect to a database via the embedded server and simultaneously connect via other embedded processes to the same database file. This was not possible in previous version - the second process would be locked out. Can someone lead me to an

Re[2]: [firebird-support] Multiple Embedded Connections

2014-01-16 Thread Dmitry Kuzmenko
Hello, Paul, Alan! PV Windows Embedded now contains a SuperClassic instead of a SuperServer engine. PV File locks are shared, so a database can be accessed by one or more Embedded PV servers and a regular Classic or SuperClassic server at the same time. PV Consult the Firebird 2.5 Release

RE: [firebird-support] Multiple Embedded Connections

2014-01-16 Thread Alan McDonald
Hi Alan, I notice that it is now possible to connect to a database via the embedded server and simultaneously connect via other embedded processes to the same database file. This was not possible in previous version - the second process would be locked out. Can someone lead me to an

RE: Re[2]: [firebird-support] Multiple Embedded Connections

2014-01-16 Thread Alan McDonald
Hello, Paul, Alan! PV Windows Embedded now contains a SuperClassic instead of a SuperServer engine. PV File locks are shared, so a database can be accessed by one or more PV Embedded servers and a regular Classic or SuperClassic server at the same time. PV Consult the Firebird 2.5

Re: [firebird-support] Unknown ISC Error 0

2014-01-16 Thread Cam
On 16/01/2014 6:07 PM, Helen Borrie wrote: At 06:28 p.m. 16/01/2014, Cam wrote: Hi Using Firebird 2.5.2 32 bit SuperServer. Happens on Win XP, WIN7 64 BIT oS'S Occasionally on some sites I am getting a dialog Box with ISCErrorCode 335544648 Unknown ISC Error 0 According to the error

Re: [firebird-support] Multiple Embedded Connections

2014-01-16 Thread Paul Vinkenoog
Alan McDonald wrote: Windows Embedded now contains a SuperClassic instead of a SuperServer engine. File locks are shared, so a database can be accessed by one or more Embedded servers and a regular Classic or SuperClassic server at the same time. Consult the Firebird 2.5 Release

Re: [firebird-support] Confused about delta files [SOLVED]

2014-01-16 Thread Paul Vinkenoog
Maury Markowitz wrote: What exactly are you missing in the documentation? Notice that delta files are normally very short-lived. That's the issue right there. As it is clearly possible that these are not *always* short lived, this should be mentioned along with suggestions on what to