Re: [firebird-support] Database/Table Corruption

2019-12-27 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hello, before you try FirstAID, download IBPump and try to pump all data to the new database with the same structure. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon On 27.12.2019 22:49, Hugo Eyng hugoe...@msn.com [firebird-support] wrote: Hello. FB 2.5.7 Windows 10 64 bits Page size 4096 I am

Re: [firebird-support] Re: High write access on disk

2019-11-13 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hello, For predictable load reads/fetches is very useful metric, but in case of spikes like Thomas has - 96 connections to 1300, it will be far less useful. Regards, Alexey On 13.11.2019 14:50, Dimitry Sibiryakov s...@ibphoenix.com [firebird-support] wrote: > 13.11.2019 12:41, Alexey Kovya

Re: [firebird-support] Re: High write access on disk

2019-11-13 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hello, Yes, better use default - pagecache in terms of Linux is different from Page Buffers/Page cache of Firebird. Regards, Alexey On 13.11.2019 15:10, kragh.tho...@yahoo.com [firebird-support] wrote: Hey Alexey Thanks for the answer, I only have one question left, do I need to adjust

Re: [firebird-support] Re: High write access on disk

2019-11-13 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hello Thomas, Ok, good to know that you are prepared for the migration! FB3 with proper migration and config certainly will increase the overall performance. In my presentation regarding Linux I spoke about specific case which is under everyday control, and in our long way, we also started

Re: [firebird-support] Re: High write access on disk

2019-11-13 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
4 have different optimization, so some queries can start to work slower, and thorough testing is required. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon On 13.11.2019 11:56, kragh.tho...@yahoo.com [firebird-support] wrote: Hey Alexey Thanks for the advise, I changed TempCacheLimit to 21, last

Re: [firebird-support] High write access on disk

2019-11-12 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hello Thomas, Seems like your system generates a lot of sort files - the problem can be that TempCacheLimit in Firebird 2.5 cannot be more than 2Gb -1. When you set it to something between 2 and 4Gb, it means 0. So, set something like TempCacheLimit=21 Consider to tune other

Re: [firebird-support] Off-Topic: Firebird future

2019-10-21 Thread 'Alexey Kovyazin (ak)' a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon пн, 21 окт. 2019 г., 19:24 Stefan Heymann li...@stefanheymann.de [firebird-support] : > > > > > Official or not, we need a simple, up to date, Firebird only, native > > GUI. > > I don't get the point. There are GUI tools readily ava

Re: [firebird-support] Scaling Firebird - Azure

2019-10-09 Thread 'Alexey Kovyazin (ak)' a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Ocean, Hetzner and even Google Cloud. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon ср, 9 окт. 2019 г., 10:49 'Louis van Alphen' lo...@nucleo.co.za [firebird-support] : > > > I think it is unfair to say Azure sucks. I have had huge performance > issues with FB on a normal server with server gr

Re: [firebird-support] Scaling Firebird - Azure

2019-10-09 Thread 'Alexey Kovyazin (ak)' a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hello, In short words, Azure sucks, its so called Premium SSD is worse than the cheapest consumer grade ssd. Try Google Cloud or Amazon, or Hetzner. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon пн, 7 окт. 2019 г., 0:20 Rune Horneland rune.hornel...@kravia.net [firebird-support] : > > >

Re: [firebird-support] Re: Does gbak use WireCompression?

2019-09-17 Thread 'Alexey Kovyazin (ak)' a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Martin, Vlad head read my mind and answered :) Try remote restore through service manager, it is much faster. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin вт, 17 сент. 2019 г., 9:59 hv...@users.sourceforge.net [firebird-support] < firebird-support@yahoogroups.com>: > > > ---In firebird-support@

Re: [firebird-support] Firebird 3.0 performance, Windows 10 vs Mint, big different

2019-06-23 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
other choice. I personally experienced slowness on one of my own desktops, and perfect performance on the another one. Better just stay out from this lottery. Try to make experiments with Windows Server, it will make more sense. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon Anto

Re: [firebird-support] How to know if FileSystemCacheThreshold works?

2019-06-22 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hello, Download RAMMap from Sysinternals (Micorosft), and see if database file is in list of cached files. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon On 22.06.2019 11:42, trsk...@yahoo.com [firebird-support] wrote: Hi guys, I have FB 3.04 SS in windows 10. I have a database with these setting

Re: [firebird-support] Understanding Firebird Security

2019-05-20 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
rather shocked by that. Why? Any database can be opened if you have access to the database file - there are plenty of recovery tools for MSSQL, PostrgeSQL, etc, to dump the contents of the database. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon On 20.05.2019 13:32, sbai...@mutualconsultants.ltd.uk

Re: [firebird-support] Understanding Firebird Security

2019-05-20 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
hird-party plugins available or you can build your own. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon Steve Bailey

Re: [firebird-support] "12. Don't forget to enable file cache with big Firebird cache page"

2019-01-09 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
provide details about it. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon On 09.01.2019 10:57, liviuslivius liviusliv...@poczta.onet.pl [firebird-support] wrote: Hi, i have read on http://firebirdsql.org/ article "23 More Ways To Speed Up Firebird". Can you explain me point "12. Don't forget

Re: [firebird-support] Firebird vs. PostgreSQL

2018-11-08 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
. Best regards Dalton On Wed, 7 Nov 2018 at 14:32, Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com <mailto:a...@ib-aid.com> [firebird-support] <mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com>> wrote: Hello Dalton, >Where do you see the list of features that are destined to be in 5?

Re: [firebird-support] Firebird vs. PostgreSQL

2018-11-07 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
membership in Firebird Foundation (which can be bought separately by USD$300/year). Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon

Re: [firebird-support] Firebird vs. PostgreSQL

2018-11-07 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
nd 3.0, and will be in community Firebird 4.0 Master-Master is the next step for 5.0. (6) High Available Clustering agree, it will be based on top of the replication. Regards, Alexey On Wed, 7 Nov 2018 at 12:19, Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com <mailto:a...@ib-aid.com> [firebird-support] <mailto:f

Re: [firebird-support] Firebird vs. PostgreSQL

2018-11-07 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Thank you! In my opinion, Firebird will close the gap with PG in main features in 2 years, with FB5.0 version. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon www.ib-aid.com On 07.11.2018 19:58, 'Martijn Tonies (Upscene Productions)' m.ton...@upscene.com [firebird-support] wrote: > Hello Alexey, > &

Re: [firebird-support] Firebird vs. PostgreSQL

2018-11-07 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Martijn, What about compilation of stored procedures - is it true that it is possible to create SP with errors, and they appear only when it will be invoked? Also, about checking the parameters - is it true that you can create stored procedure which invokes other stored procedure with wrong

Re: [firebird-support] Firebird cluster

2018-08-22 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hello, As you probably know, Firebird a) uses complex mechanism to write consistent data to the database file even in the multi-users environment, b) intensively uses own cache, which must be synced with database file. SafeKit says it is byte-level replication. So, essentially it is the same

Re: [firebird-support] Re: how can the creation of fb_sort files be avoided? 2.2 GB of fb_sort files

2018-08-07 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hello, Since you have enough RAM, you can increase TempCacheLimit in firebird.conf, for example, set 20Gb. Fb_sort_xxx files will be created only if sorting will require more than TempCacheLimit. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon On 07.08.2018 10:35, bieten2...@yahoo.de [firebird-support

Re: [firebird-support] Firebird 3.0 - Won't Start - terminated due to startup error (2)

2018-07-30 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hello, Don't install from repo, better download installation package from firebirdsql.org and install it instead. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon On 27.07.2018 19:41, mailinglist.int.it.firebird.supp...@principledgroup.com [firebird-support] wrote: Problem: Firebird 3.0

Re: [firebird-support] Plan with stored procedure

2018-06-22 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi Josef, Firebird 3 shows plan Natural for all procedures. 2.5 also sometimes shows Natural, sometimes - mix of plans of queries inside the procedure. So, you cannot apply this plan to the statement. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon www.ib-aid.com On 22.06.2018 9:47, josef.gschwendt

Re: [firebird-support] Diagnosing CPU usage

2018-05-11 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
, and sort on record_idx_reads. If there are many records - Remove prepared The queries with the highest numbers of record_idx_reads are those which responsible for high CPU usage. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon On 10.05.2018 16:12, Rudi Feijó rudi.fe...@multidadosti.com.br [firebird-support] wrote:

Re: [firebird-support] Measure the effectiveness of incrementing page buffer...

2018-05-04 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
I am totally agree with Mark. Ratio of page reads/page fetches for all queries has a little sense. For example, the single badly designed query with many page fetches can "improve" this parameter a lot, without any real improvement in the performance, of course. Regards, Alexe

Re: [firebird-support] What regular maintenance actions does Firebird need in order to function properly?

2018-05-04 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hello, We recommend perform at least everyday sweep - with disconnect of long running active writeable transactions before it. Can you please clarify what do you mean by > measuring the effectiveness of the page cache ? Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon www.ib-aid.com On 04.05.2018 5

Re: [firebird-support] gbak of encrypted database

2018-05-01 Thread 'Alexey Kovyazin (ak)' a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
the encrypted backup is also encrypted, otherwise it will be a security hole. If you're implementing your own plugin, you can implement whatever you need. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon вт, 1 мая 2018 г., 3:24 Hamish Moffatt ham...@risingsoftware.com [firebird-support] <firebird-supp

Re: [firebird-support] windows server 2016 as server for firebird 2.5.7

2017-12-06 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hello Nils, No other issues. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon On 05.12.2017 14:52, Nils Boedeker nilsboede...@t-online.de [firebird-support] wrote: Hi I want to use windows server 2016 as server for firebird 2.5.7 (Classic Server) are there any known issus with using firebird

Re: [firebird-support] Converting to firebird 3

2017-10-12 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
/45-ways-to-speed-up-firebird-database/ https://www.slideshare.net/ibsurgeon/resolving-firebird-performance-problems Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon On 11.10.2017 12:35, 'Gian Uys' gian...@gmail.com [firebird-support] wrote: Hi We have an application with roughly 20 000 lines of code and have

Re: [firebird-support] detect if database has changed

2017-10-09 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi, Look at System Audit feature. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon HQbird www.ib-aid.com On 09.10.2017 2:49, Hamish Moffatt ham...@risingsoftware.com [firebird-support] wrote: Is there an official way to detect if a database has changed? I have some expensive reports and backups to run

Re: [firebird-support] Re: Sort error No free space found in temporary...

2017-09-03 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
is to decrease record sets which should be sorted. For example, many developers use ORDER BY for internal processing in stored procedures - usually it can be simply removed. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon On 03.09.2017 20:47, kragh.tho...@yahoo.com [firebird-support] wrote: Hey Thanks

Re: [firebird-support] Re: Sort error No free space found in temporary...

2017-09-03 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
there is the single server process. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon www.ib-aid.com On 02.09.2017 20:46, Thomas Steinmaurer t...@iblogmanager.com [firebird-support] wrote: Hi Thomas, > From what i can read on the internet TempCacheLimit, is per server > process, and not per atta

Re: [firebird-support] Firebird slowdown.

2017-08-15 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi, It can be several reasons. Try ##7, 20, 21, 23 from this list https://www.ib-aid.com/en/articles/45-ways-to-speed-up-firebird-database/ Regards, Alexey On 15.08.2017 19:50, anderphil...@hotmail.com [firebird-support] wrote: Hi, I have a strange problem which is probably quite obvious

Re: [firebird-support] Can anyone advise the difference between Firebird 2.5 32 bit vs Firebird 3 32 bit?

2017-06-23 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi, In short - 5 years of development. These versions are different major releases, no backward compatibility. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon HQbird www.ib-aid.com On 23.06.2017 12:15, 'Vonica Tng (Madsoft)' vonica@madsoft.com.sg [firebird-support] wrote: Hi, Can anyone advise

Re: [firebird-support] FB in Azure VM?

2017-06-21 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi, For 6 months of fees of powerful Azure VM you can buy the whole server. I don't know if they charge for IO rounds, like Amazon - there IO adds a huge $$ to the bill. If you want your database hosted and be reliable and safe - rent 2 servers with SSD in Hetzner and install asynchronous

Re: [firebird-support] internal firebird consistency check

2017-06-10 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
. It is not possible to 100% protect from all types of corruptions, but it possible to eliminate their consequences - implement a failover solution based on Firebird replication (VM failover does not work). Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon www.ib-aid.com 1. I got following error reported

Re: [firebird-support] nbackup

2017-06-02 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
lta is very small. In 2.5 nbackup of any level scans the whole database file. Consider to migrate to 3.0 to take advantage of nbackup improvements Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon www.ib-aid.com Hi Alexey, In my case the database is seldom larger 500 MB and the backup takes 30 maximum seco

Re: [firebird-support] nbackup

2017-06-01 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
be retrieved from the database. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin Hello, Is there a way to ask a database if someone is performing a nbackup? If it's in "the physical backup mode". I'm always paranoid if there is a power failure during a backup and it gets stuck in that mode and I would like it to re

Re: [firebird-support] Table Size

2017-05-11 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi Ed, There is IBAanalyst tool (now it is a part of HQbird), it shows sizes of tables and associated indices, see column Size http://ib-aid.com/images/iba_tables.gif Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon HQbird www.ib-aid.com I have a number of growing databases on my server and would like

Re: AW: [firebird-support] Firebird SuperClassic hangs

2017-05-09 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
in lock table, or related with excessive number of record versions (Max Versions in database statistics), or with other reasons. I would recommend to perform detailed investigation of the problem. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon www.ib-aid.com<http://www.ib-aid.com> Hi, we’re running Fi

Re: [firebird-support] Firebird SuperClassic hangs

2017-05-09 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Versions in database statistics), or with other reasons. I would recommend to perform detailed investigation of the problem. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon www.ib-aid.com Hi, we’re running Firebird 2.5.7 SuperClassic on Windows Server 2012R2 as part of a web application. Database

Re: [firebird-support] Firebird 3 superserver configuration for high load

2017-04-20 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi, Look at the English version of the page https://ib-aid.com/en/optimized-firebird-configuration/ Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon Those are for 2.5 aren't them? The only ones I found there are at https://ib-aid.com/br/optimized-firebird-configuration/ I was guessing there are different

Re: [firebird-support] Improve remote query speed on Windows Server 2012 VPS

2017-04-14 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi, Migrate to Firebird 3 - it has protocol improvements for high latency networks. With 2.5 you will never reach such good results as with FB3. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon www.ib-aid.com Hi. I'm testing Firebird 2.5 x64 on Windows Server 2012 R2 VPS From tests,remote access

Re: [firebird-support] Firebird 2.5 classic performance issue on linux64

2017-03-01 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
with low and moderate writes. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin > Hi guys, > > I'm just responding one more time because I want to mark this as solved > for me: > > Several things did the trick: > >* Upgrade Firebird to 2.5.7 (apparently there was a subquery bug in >

Re: [firebird-support] Firebird 2.5 classic performance issue on linux64

2017-02-26 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
that - start to check performance of your queries - non-optimal queries lead to 90% of performance problems. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon Hi everyone, I originally tried to post to this like I would to a normal mailing list. I've never seen an open source project that required me to have

Re: [firebird-support] FB 2.5 migrate to 3.0

2017-01-09 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi, Recompile all stored procedures and triggers in Firebird 3. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon HQbird www.ib-aid.com/hqbird Dear Sir/Madam, I am trying to migrate my database from 2.5 to 3.0 now. It was tested before and worked successfully with great help from firebird community

Re[2]: [firebird-support] How to change cpu utilization in Firebird engine?

2017-01-07 Thread Alexey Kovyazin (ak) a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi, There is no sense to tune or upgrade CPU or other hardware without prior analysis of slowness reasons. In 95% the reason is in non-optimal queries plans or absense of indices. -- Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon суббота, 07 января 2017г., 11:26 +03:00 от trsk...@yahoo.com [firebird

Re: [firebird-support] High Availability Firebird

2016-12-13 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi, Please take a look http://www.slideshare.net/ibsurgeon/failsafe-cluster-for-firebirdsql-and-something-more Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon Hi Everyone, First, I apologise if this isn't the correct group - please forgive me. I'm trying to find some contemporary (ie from in the last 24

Re: [firebird-support] Migration from Interbase 7.5 to Firebird 2.5.4

2016-12-01 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi, We did it several times for our clients. Not very difficult, but requires to detect and rewrite wrong SQL queries. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon Hi , It is my First question in this group. I would like to know if someone has accomplished a migration from Interbase 7.5 to Firebird

[firebird-support] Re: FB Conference 2016

2016-10-07 Thread Alexey Kovyazin (ak) a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi Andre! Thank you! Have a good vacation! We will definetely do more conferences and meet there! -- Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon пятница, 07 октября 2016г., 09:53 +02:00 от André Knappstein andre.knappst...@beta-eigenheim.de : >Hello Alexey, >hello Dmitry, > >I hope the

Re: [firebird-support] internal Firebird consistency check (decompression overran buffer (179), file: sqz.cpp line: 239)

2016-10-04 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi Ian, It seems that you have multi-volume database, is it correct? Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon Hi FB Support! We have been running FB since IB4.2 days and have only previously had any database corruption when we've had hardware issues...until recently, when I've seen this error

Re: [firebird-support] Slow Firebird performance in Azure with durable data disks (e.g., Premium Storage)

2016-08-30 Thread Alexey Kovyazin (ak) a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
, there are other options to deal with such performance problem - please contact me directly. -- Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon вторник, 30 августа 2016г., 19:18 +03:00 от Antti Nivala antti.niv...@m-files.com [firebird-support] firebird-support@yahoogroups.com : >  >Hi, >  >We've

Re: [firebird-support] Issue with Database Cache Size on FB 3.0

2016-05-31 Thread Alexey Kovyazin (ak) a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi Fabian, Firebird caches only actually used pages. The small cache means that your application touches the small part of the database. -- Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon PS It is difficult and wrong to give you any direct advice without all details in hands - it can lead to worse

Re: [firebird-support] how to keep history of statements per transaction?

2016-05-31 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
/download/docs/hqbird2016r1userguide.pdf Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon www.ib-aid.com Hi, I'm looking for easy to use solution that can help me trace statements executed inside every transaction and keep them until transaction is active. Once it is closed(commit or rollback) statements

[firebird-support] Call for papers for Firebird Conference 2016

2016-05-27 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
ally after the conference. By submitting materials to the Firebird conference, you grant the Firebird Foundation permission to use, reproduce, audio/video record and distribute your materials. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon

Re: [firebird-support] Is Firebird 3 ready for Production?

2016-05-25 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi Fabian, Also I recommend you to try our optimized configuration file for FB3: http://ib-aid.com/en/optimized-firebird-configuration/ Regards, Alexey Hi Alexey Thank you for the comments. So far everything has gone ok, I fixed all the fields with ASCII charset at the FB 2.54 DB (changed

Re: [firebird-support] Is Firebird 3 ready for Production?

2016-05-25 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
we do migration for our clients, we use our automation tools which ensure that we have traced all problematic queries before going to production. I don't think it's possible to do such checking manually in case of big enough system - and comments in this thread confirm it. Regards, Alexey

Re: [firebird-support] Re: Question about few Firebird details

2016-05-24 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi, Yes, sure, my mistake - I should not answer questions so late and need to sleep more :) Regards, Alexey 23.05.2016 22:32, Alexey Kovyazin wrote: > > 44. This option turn off individual savepoints. Individual savepoints are never turned off. This option disables the root (trans

Re: [firebird-support] Question about few Firebird details

2016-05-23 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
(i1 integer not null primary key, iSort integer, BIGSTARTING VarchaR(2000)); insert there 10 mln records and do 2 queries as in the example. It will take 10 mins, and and you'll see the difference by yourself. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon Hi, https://ib-aid.com/en/articles/45-ways

[firebird-support] Firebird 3.0 Is Available Now!

2016-04-19 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
ur website http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-foundation/ For more information, contact: Steve Summers, sesumm...@firebirdsql.org, or Alexey Kovyazin, c...@firebirdsql.org

Re: [firebird-support] Performance issues moving to new server with later Firebird version

2016-04-19 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
-guide/ Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon HQbird We have a 127GB Firebird database that was running on Windows Server 2008 x64 with 16GB of RAM and Firebird SuperClassic v2.5.2.26539. The database has a page size of 8192 and buffers of 6144, and ODS version 11.2. Due to time

[firebird-support] Re[2]: [FB 2.1] Firebird engine seems to slow down on high load without utilizing hardware

2016-04-13 Thread Alexey Kovyazin (ak) a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Patrick, Definetely you need to compare real life loads. -- Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon среда, 13 апреля 2016г., 04:47 +03:00 от " thetr...@yahoo.com [firebird-support]" < firebird-support@yahoogroups.com> : >  > >Hey Alexey, >thanks you for our input. I t

[firebird-support] Re[2]: [FB 2.1] Firebird engine seems to slow down on high load without utilizing hardware

2016-04-13 Thread Alexey Kovyazin (ak) a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
ough random reads. >From Sintatica, every 20 Minutes a Peak in GC for >~15.000 transactions Sinatica uses really strange terms to describe transactions behaviour, and since it is an abandonen tool, nobody can explain how they are aligned with real situation. -- Regards, Alexey Kovyazin I

Re: [firebird-support] [FB 2.1] Firebird engine seems to slow down on high load without utilizing hardware

2016-04-12 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
06.2 IOPS] From our optimization practice we found that if you need to optimize only the single instance of the database, the most cost effective way is to upgrade to SSD first, and only then fix other problems. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon HQbird www.ib-aid.com hi, recently we

Re: [firebird-support] Find rarely used or unused indices

2016-04-08 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
, this idea is not so good as it appears - if index has good selectivity, Firebird usually uses it very effectively, until you have some abandoned parts in the database, where you never send SQL queries. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon www.ib-aid.com Hi What is the best way to go

Re: [firebird-support] help to repair a corrupted database

2016-04-07 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi, Gfix visits each page of the database, so 90 minutes is not so long if your disk subsystem is not based SSD. In general, follow these steps http://ib-aid.com/en/articles/how-to-repair-a-corrupt-firebird-database/ Check firebird.log too - gfix reports there its findings. Regards, Alexey

Re: [firebird-support] lock conflict deadlock

2016-04-05 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
get Snapshot. MonLogger saves all data from MON% tables for the investigation in the folder, and on the tab Transaction it highlights with red color those transactions which are potentially conflict, so you can review which application runs it. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon

Re: [firebird-support] What makes a database file size so big?

2016-03-29 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
due to versioning and blobs. DBinfo will give you information about distribution of pages with numbers and percentage of page types. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon www.ib-aid.com Hi, I use firebird 2.5 classic server on windows operating system. Because our database file is quite big (1

Re: [firebird-support] How do find duplicates in a table?

2016-02-04 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi, It is faster to use RDB$DB_KEY to find and delete duplicates. See more details here http://ib-aid.com/en/articles/how-to-find-and-delete-duplicate-records-in-firebird-database/ Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon I had finally figured it out just before your reply SELECT DISTINCT

Re: [firebird-support] An SQL query perform badly after firebird database file size grow beyond 8GB

2016-01-08 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi, There should a reason why optimizer chooses the wrong plan. Try to recalculate indices statistics. Also, for general performance, use optimized Firebird configuration: http://ib-aid.com/en/optimized-firebird-configuration/ Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon HQbird www.ib-aid.com I am

Re: [firebird-support] Firebird Download Malware

2016-01-05 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi, >The following file is affected: >http://sourceforge.net/projects/firebird/files/firebird-win64/2.5.5-Release/Firebird-2.5.5.26952_0_x64.exe/download I can confirm that Security Essential also reported this exe as Trojan.Win32/Varpes.J!plock Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon

Re: [firebird-support] Bad performance of Firebird in Windows Server 2012

2015-12-31 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi Eduardo, Can you please give links to these articles? Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon I searched in Google and found that, for instance, MS suggests not to install SQL Server in a domain controller, but for security reasons. In some articles, MS even recommends to disable disk write

Re: [firebird-support] Bad performance of Firebird in Windows Server 2012

2015-12-31 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
that cache is bad, just highlights the potential risk of data loss if caching without BBU is used. So, essentially you need to buy advanced disk controller and properly setup it - that's true. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon There is an interesting (and quite long) article about SQL Server

Re: [firebird-support] Firebird 3.x timings

2015-12-27 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
-25% better than 2.5 SC. Keep in mind that test is designed to simulate parallel write load. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon www.ib-aid.com Is FB 3.x much faster than FB 2.5.x? I'm looking for some timing and stability comparisons. Thanks.

Re: [firebird-support] UPDATE to same record causing heavy disk I/O

2015-12-23 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
kes Firebird to preserve versions of updated record. In general, avoid multiple updates of the same record - replace them with INSERTs and some scheduled delete, right before sweep. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon Since I began using Firebird, I have kept my transactions (type concurre

Re: [firebird-support] FB lock files

2015-12-08 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi Rudi, You did not provide all required information to give you a reasonable answer. At least, post fb_lock_print -d output. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin Try HQbird now! www.hqbird.com

Re: [firebird-support] Replication SW experience

2015-11-26 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi, Try IBReplicator. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon Hi all, we are preparing new project with bidirectional replication. Customer idea is to have master database in head quoter and slave databases on production plant (to solve network performance and availability issues). Witch

Re: [firebird-support] Firebird for a web application

2015-11-18 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
, including delta files in case of nbackup lock and some others. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon www.ib-aid.com Hi Mirco, We have written multiple java EE web applications with Firebird on linux as the database. Usually we will use Glassfish (or Payara) as the app server and run Firebird

Re: [firebird-support] Interbase 5.6 (Windows 98) not available on network

2015-11-11 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi Virgo, You should be able to connect to this database with your Firebird (except 3.0). There could be incompatibilities, of course, like reserved words (YEAR, TYPE), but in general it should work for simple SELECT * FROM table. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon www.ib-aid.com

[firebird-support] Firebird Language Reference - Call For Reviewers

2015-11-11 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
(send any email to firebird-docs-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net) and make yourself and your preferred topics known. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon www.ib-aid.com

Re: [firebird-support] Running gfix and gbak from windows service

2015-11-09 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon www.ib-aid.com We using both gfix and gbak from windows service to perform routine maintenance operations such as moving db to shutdown mode performing check and then backup then online mode This works fine on Firebird 2.5.2 however it does not work on 2.5.3 & 2

Re: [firebird-support] Re: Firebird replication help needed

2015-10-09 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi, Try IBReplicator (commercial) instead. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon I've downloaded the FB Replicator and tryed it on my database. When I want to add it as a souce database I enter path to the DB user pass and click save, but it gives me the following error: ISC ERROR CODE

Re: [firebird-support] Securing database against corruption on systems that suddenly get turned off

2015-09-21 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
, and if corruption happens, this repository will be used to recover database with our recovery tool (FirstAID). In our experience such approach increases chances to recover up to 99%. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon Hi, We have FirebirdSQL (2.1) running on a client computer (Windows

Re: [firebird-support] Firebird 2.5 Language Reference

2015-09-16 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi, Translation was completed several weeks ago, now Helen Borrie performs proof-reading and editing of the text. Recent preview version of LR looks very promising. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon Hello everybody Do you know what has happened with the translation of the document

Re: [firebird-support] Firebird 2.5 Language Reference

2015-09-16 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi, Translation was completed several weeks ago, now Helen Borrie performs proof-reading and editing of the text. Recent preview version of LR looks very promising. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon Hello everybody Do you know what has happened with the translation of the document

Re: [firebird-support] What is better: UPDATE or DELETE + INSERT?

2015-09-16 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi, See page 20-21 here http://ru.scribd.com/doc/20128182/The-InterBase-and-Firebird-Developer-Magazine-Issue-2-2005 Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon Hello Sean, and everybody That's a very interesting and very important theme: "the new record version will only include the updated f

Re: [firebird-support] HUGE Log File

2015-09-15 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi, Usually such huge log is related with a database corruption. Can you please send here small excerpt from the most recent records of firebird.log (10-15 lines)? Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon

Re: [firebird-support] Growing security2.fdb

2015-09-11 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi Neil, Run DBInfo from IBSurgeon Free tools and check what pages are there. I suppose there are many TIPS, which indicate transactions. Verify it with gstat -h transaction markers values. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon Hello Something I have noticed with Firebird v2.1 with Windows 32

Re: ODP: Re: [firebird-support] About firebird performance

2015-09-06 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
, and 100k is normal value (but still requires cache heating). Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon Hi, For superserver this should be as high as possible. Why you recommended 1 value? I always set it to highest possible value in current environment compared to size of database. And i

Re: [firebird-support] About firebird performance

2015-09-05 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
is too high for Firebird SuperServer, it should be set to 1. You can use optimized Firebird configuration files http://ib-aid.com/en/optimized-firebird-configuration/ Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon Nevertheless, I'll try on a physical machine as you and Carlos suggest and see how

Re: [firebird-support] Firebird backup on virtual machine

2015-08-28 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
nbackup to lock database before VM snapshot, in this case only delta will be at risk. However, nbackup-only solution is not smart, since it does check an integrity of database, as gbak does. We recommend to use combination of nbackup and gbak. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon

Re: [firebird-support] FB 2.5 Lock conflict on no wait transaction

2015-08-26 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi Hernado, You are the third person during several days with this question. Can you please post the full error text? Otherwise it is not possible to provide any help. Regards, Alexey Hi to all, From several days ago we are having trouble with Lock conflict on no wait transaction on a

Re: [firebird-support] Re: DeadLock Conflict

2015-08-24 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi, Please provide full error text and detailed description of the problem. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon Hi all I experience the same problem. Is there a tutorial to track theese kind of problems? tks Razvan

Re: [firebird-support] DeadLock Conflict

2015-08-24 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi, Probably you mean Lock conflict, not a true deadlock (full error text will help). If you see transaction number in the message, you can track it using MON$ tables, and then find out which connection has started it. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon Hi All If possible at all, how

Re: [firebird-support] Problem with FB database that freezes

2015-07-24 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
to forced rollback, and as a result, OIT could stuck, and it will lead to increased gap OIT-OST, which is also not good. For more details about OIT, OST and OAT read this ppt http://www.slideshare.net/ibsurgeon/3-how-transactionswork Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon Hi there, Can

Re: [firebird-support] Corrupted database

2015-06-16 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi, It is a typical corruption usually caused by Firebird abnormal termination due to power outage. You can fix it with IBSurgeon FirstAID more details at www.ib-aid.com Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon 16 июня 2015 г. 6:50 пользователь Nagy Szilveszter nagy_szilvesz...@yahoo.com [firebird

Re: [firebird-support] How do i access firbird database to manipulate the databases

2015-06-01 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi, You can use IBDataPump free tool. It allows data pumping between exact databases or using custom Select queries. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon Hi there, I am new to firebird and need to manipulate or merge two firebird databases. The tables should be the same format but I need

Re: [firebird-support] Memory usage excess / leak in FBServer 2.5.4

2015-05-28 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
folder at the first step). Then please zip it and send to supp...@ib-aid.com for the investigation. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon Hello, I'm facing a problem where the firebird server v2.5.4 on win 2012 server in superserver mode is leaking memory. Currently I'm at ~5GB usage. Don't have any

Re: [firebird-support] GBAK - validation error for column X, value *** null ***

2015-05-15 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
for it. If problems continue, you can export data using our proprietary IBBackupSurgeon tool (http://ib-aid.com/en/ibbackupsurgeon/), which can export data on low-level. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon Hi! What would be a proper way of dealing with GBAK restore error 'validation error for column X

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