RE: [firebird-support] Union with or without distinct in the separate queries?

2020-01-02 Thread liviuslivius liviusliv...@poczta.onet.pl [firebird-support]
This depend only on reduction scale.If your particullar queries have many duplicates e.g 90% or more, than separate distinct can be better from resource POV. But if it is opposite, then eliminate particular distinct operations can have huge performance boost.Regards,Karol Bieniaszewski

[firebird-support] Union with or without distinct in the separate queries?

2020-01-02 Thread Kjell Rilbe kjell.ri...@marknadsinformation.se [firebird-support]
Hi, Not important, just got curious: Consider a query like this: select c1 from t1 union select c1 from t2; This will eliminate all duplicates, since I didn't specify "union all". But would this be more or less efficient than (or the same as) this: select distinct c1 from t1 union

Re: [firebird-support] Remote backup using gbak

2020-01-02 Thread Kevin Stanton kevin.stan...@rdb-solutions.com [firebird-support]
The error was: Gbak error: I/O error for file “c:\fbThe system cannot find file specified.” Gbak error: Error while trying to open file. Gbak error: The system cannot find the file specified. Thanks! Kevin > On Jan 1, 2020, at 2:03 PM, Norman Dunbar nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk >