[firebird-support] Is it possible to convert binary blob to varchar?

2015-02-10 Thread doyc...@dsoft-bg.com [firebird-support]
Hi, I tried to convert binary blob field to varchar column in select statement but It did not work. Here is what I did: 1. I created a domain CREATE DOMAIN D_BIGVARCHAR AS VARCHAR(32000) CHARACTER SET OCTETS COLLATE OCTETS; Then when I use this query select cast(JOB_INFO as

Re: [firebird-support] Re: Speed issues

2015-02-10 Thread Ann Harrison aharri...@ibphoenix.com [firebird-support]
On Feb 9, 2015, at 11:52 AM, 'Leyne, Sean' s...@broadviewsoftware.com [firebird-support] firebird-support@yahoogroups.com wrote: What is your cache settings [2048] Zoran's complaint is about the first time the query is executed. In that case, nothing would be in cache and

[firebird-support] Database shutdown leaves connections

2015-02-10 Thread Glenn Thomas Hvidsten g...@vensafe.no [firebird-support]
I'm having problems shutting down a databases on the server. I have followed the instructions in the documentation: http://www.firebirdsql.org/manual/gfix-dbstartstop.html And by using the following command the database seems to be shut down: gfix -user SYSDBA -pas masterkey -shut full -force

RE: [firebird-support] Re: Speed issues

2015-02-10 Thread 'Leyne, Sean' s...@broadviewsoftware.com [firebird-support]
Ann, Zoran's complaint is about the first time the query is executed. In that case, nothing would be in cache and everything would still need to be loaded from disk. A 2048 page cache may be small enough that it would cause problems even during loading, given the size of his database and

SV: [firebird-support] Re: Database shutdown leaves connections

2015-02-10 Thread Glenn Thomas Hvidsten g...@vensafe.no [firebird-support]
And by using the following command the database seems to be shut down: gfix -user SYSDBA -pas masterkey -shut full -force 0 C:\Database\MyDB.fdb Why isn’t this command working properly and what can I do to shut down the database so that I can rename it (in order to restore a backup).