[firebird-support] Re: Firebird on Raspberry Pi 2 : Problem to connect remotely

2015-12-04 Thread m-zs...@freemail.hu [firebird-support]
Hi Agus, Is the RemoteBindAddress parameter restricts connections to local attachments in firebird.conf? Regards Zsolt

Re: [firebird-support] Is it save to append some data at end of the binary firebird database file?

2015-12-04 Thread Tim Ward t...@telensa.com [firebird-support]
On 04/12/2015 00:07, Christian Gütter n...@guetter.org [firebird-support] wrote: > In Windows this is not an abuse, executable files have > provision for version metadata ("resource") and you're supposed > to use it properly. Pity this doesn't apply portably to all file types, innit. True,

[firebird-support] Re: Firebird on Raspberry Pi 2 : Problem to connect remotely

2015-12-04 Thread trsk...@yahoo.com [firebird-support]
Yes you were right. Just found the solution, just comment RemoteBindAddress in firebird.conf & restart firebird service and it works. By the way, for a small database, firebird server performance on Raspberry Pi2 is not bad at all. With my microSD (read speed about 20MB/s), it took about 2

Re: [firebird-support] Is it save to append some data at end of the binary firebird database file?

2015-12-04 Thread Fabiano Kureck fabi...@sci10.com.br [firebird-support]
What you can do is inspect Firebird structure and search for an unused area. Documentation about this can be found at http://www.firebirdsql.org/manual/fb-internals.html By example if you check http://www.firebirdsql.org/manual/fbint-standard-header.html Pag_checksum: Two bytes, unsigned. Bytes

[firebird-support] Re: Firebird on Raspberry Pi 2 : Problem to connect remotely

2015-12-04 Thread trsk...@yahoo.com [firebird-support]
Yes you were right. Just found the solution, just comment RemoteBindAddress in firebird.conf & restart firebird service and it works. By the way, for a small database, firebird server performance on Raspberry Pi2 is not bad at all. With my microSD (read speed about 20MB/s), it took about 2

Re: {Disarmed} [firebird-support] Replicating MS Access DB

2015-12-04 Thread Elmar Haneke el...@haneke.de [firebird-support]
> So I was looking for the replacement and as it looks to me at the > moment, I would pick LibreOffice Base as frontend, as I need to create > forms and reports, and FirebirdSQL 3 as DB engine. (Any comments are > welcome about my selection being good/bad). Firebird 3 ist at RC1 state - is your

Re: [firebird-support] Is it save to append some data at end of the binary firebird database file?

2015-12-04 Thread 'Mark Rotteveel' m...@lawinegevaar.nl [firebird-support]
That is very dangerous to do, the same bytes might be reused differently in a newer ODS. Either use a normal Firebird table to store version info, or do it outside of the database. Do not hack things in the internal structure. Mark - Reply message - Van: "Fabiano Kureck

Re: [firebird-support] Is it save to append some data at end of the binary firebird database file?

2015-12-04 Thread Ann Harrison aharri...@ibphoenix.com [firebird-support]
Fabiano Kureck suggested sticking application version information in the checksum slot of the page header. Mark Rotteveel quite correctly responded. > > > That is very dangerous to do, the same bytes might be reused differently > in a newer ODS. Either use a normal Firebird table to store version