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  • SQLite vs Firebird

    - by rwallace
    The scenario I'm looking at is "This program uses Postgres. Oh, you want to just use it single-user for the moment, and put off having to deal with installing a database server? Okay, in the meantime you can use it with the embedded single-user database." The question is then which embedded database is best. As I understand it, the two main contenders are SQLite and Firebird; so which is better? Criteria: Full SQL support, or as close as reasonably possible. Full text search. Easy to call from C# Locks, or allows you to lock, the database file to make sure nobody tries to run it multiuser and ends up six months down the road with intermittent data corruption in all their backups. Last but far from least, reliability. As I understand it, the disadvantages of SQLite are, No right outer join. Workaround: use left outer join instead. Not much integrity checking. Workaround: be really careful in the application code. No decimal numbers. Workaround: lots of aspirin. None of the above are showstoppers. Are there any others I'm missing? (I know it doesn't support some administrative and code-within-database SQL features, that aren't relevant for this kind of use case.) I don't know anything much about Firebird. What are its disadvantages?

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  • Firebird sequence-backed ID shorthand

    - by pilcrow
    What do others do to simplify the creation of simple, serial surrogate keys populated by a SEQUENCE (a.k.a. GENERATOR) in Firebird = 2.1? I finc the process comparatively arduous: For example, in PostgreSQL, I simply type: pg> CREATE TABLE tbl ( > id SERIAL NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, > ... In MySQL, I simply type: my> CREATE TABLE tbl ( > id INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT, > ... But in Firebird I type: fb> CREATE TABLE tbl ( > id BIGINT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, > ... fb> CREATE SEQUENCE tbl_id_seq; fb> SET TERM !!; > CREATE TRIGGER tbl_id_trg FOR tbl > ACTIVE BEFORE INSERT POSITION 0 > AS > BEGIN > IF ((new.id IS NULL) OR (new.id <= 0)) THEN > BEGIN > new.id = GEN_ID(tbl_id_seq, 1); > END > END !! > SET TERM ; !! ... and I get pretty bored by the time I reach trigger definition. However, I routinely make SEQUENCE-backed ID fields for temporary, developement and throw-away tables. What do others do to simplify this? Work with an IDE? Run a pre-processing, in-house perl script over the DDL file? Etc.

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  • How to configure a Firebird Database to run in memory

    - by Robert
    I'm running a software called Fishbowl inventory and it is running on a firebird database (Windows server 2003) at this time the fishbowl software is running extremely slow when more then one user accesses the software. I'm thinking I maybe able to speed up the application by forcing the database to run "In Memory". However I can not find documentation on how to do this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance. Robert

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  • maximum stored proc name in firebird

    - by Crudler
    Hi, I am migrating my db from Interbase to Firebird, and the 1st hiccup we hit comes from our stored proc names. We have a handful of stored procedures with names greater than 31 characters (which appears to be the max in FB 2.1.3) Is there a way to increase this limitation? It will be a far easier solution than modifying our software. Thanks!

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  • Firebird multiple statements

    - by Aldo
    Hello, is there any way to execute multiple statements (none of which will have to return anything) on Firebird? Like importing a SQL file and executing it. I've been looking for a while and couldn't find anything for this.

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  • Firebird 2.1 + EXISTS = query bug?

    - by Atlas
    Using Delphi 2009 + Firebird 2.1.3. Database is ODS 11.1, default char set is UTF8. My prepared query is as follows: SELECT a.po_id, a.po_no FROM purchase_order a WHERE EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM sales_order_item z1 JOIN purchase_order_item z2 ON z2.so_item_id = z1.so_item_id AND z2.po_id = a.po_id WHERE z1.so_id = :soid) ORDER BY a.po_no Now when I loop this say 1000 times because I have 1000 x so_id, the CPU usage get at 100% for FBSERVER.EXE Anyone encountered this problem?

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  • Firebird .NET: Database backup not working (small file)

    - by Norbert
    Hi, I am trying to backup my Firebird 2.5 database file by code: FbBackup backupSvc = new FbBackup(); backupSvc.ConnectionString = MyConnectionManager.buildConnectionString(); backupSvc.BackupFiles.Add(new FbBackupFile(backupPathFilenameAndExtension, 2048)); backupSvc.Verbose = true; backupSvc.Options = FbBackupFlags.IgnoreLimbo; backupSvc.Execute(); The database gets saved to the specified directory. However, the file saved file is only 168kB large. The original database is nearly 7MB in size. What goes wrong? Thanks, Norbert

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  • Need to compare blobs in firebird

    - by Michael Beck
    Hey guys, I need to check on the contents of blobs in my databases (yes, plural, but one problem at a time). In one database, I have about 900 images of potentially varying sizes. I need to check to see if the versioning system that's built into our application is actually correctly replicating the image data from the previous version to the new version of a record. How do I compare values en masse so I don't have to pick through each record one at a time and open up the blob using FlameRobin or Firebird Maestro and visually compare these images? Thanks for any assistance.

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  • DDEX Firebird editing queries duplicates columns in Visual Studio 2008

    - by A Bothe
    Hello everybody! I don't know if some of you also has experienced it but when I edit a query in Visual Studio (it uses DDEX 2.0.5 for accessing the Firebird 2.5 database), it duplicates some of the columns. What's really interesting is the fact that only System.Boolean columns are duplicated: Originally, there was only ,for instance, a 'PRO_DELETED' field... Now I wanted to sort my results by this field - I had to change the select statement in the so-called QueryBuilder by adding "ORDER BY PRO_DELETED" ...After clicking OK it somehow created a new column (!?) called 'PRO_DELETED1' My question is: Why does DDEX add such a new row to the column view and why can't I access the original PRO_DELETED field anymore? Thanks in advance!

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  • Delphi Client-Server Application using Firebird 2.5 embedded connection error

    - by Japster
    0 down vote favorite 1 share [fb] share [tw] I have got a lengthy question to ask. First of all Im still very new when it comes to Delphi programming and my experience has beem mostly developing small single user database applications using ADO and an Access database. I need to take the transition now to a client server application and this is where the problem starts. I decided to use Firebird 2.5 embeded as my database, as it is open source, and it is can be used with the interbase components in Delphi and that multiple clients can access the database simultanously. So I followed the interbase tutorial in Delphi. I managed to connect the client to the server and see the data in the example (While both are running on my pc), but when i tried to move the client to another pc, keeping the server on mine and running it to see if I can connect to the server it gave me the following error. Exception EIdSocketError in module clientDemo.exe at 0029DCAC. Socket Error # 10061 Connection refused. I understand that this might be because the host is defined as localhost in the client. But here is my first question. In the TSQLConncetion you can set die hostname under Driver-Hostname. The thing I want to know is how do you do this at run time, as I cannot get the property when I try and make an edit box to allow the user to enter the value and then set it via code like for example: SQLConncetion1.Driver.Hostname := edtHost.text; This cannot be done this way and the only way I see you can set the hostname is with the object inspector, but that is not available at runtime and I need to set the hostname on the client when the program is running the first time, so how do you set the hostname/IP address at runtime? Im using Delphi XE2 There is still a lot of questions to come especially when it comes to deployment, but I will take this piece by piece and I appreciate the advice.

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  • Connecting to embedded FireBird database from C# app issue

    - by be here now
    Hi, guys. I seem to have an issue with connecting to an embedded FireBird database from a sample C# app. Here's what I've got. static void Main(string[] args) { //Some constant parameters used to form up the connection string... #region constant literals const String User = "SYSDBA"; const String Password = "masterkey"; const String DBPath = "D:\\!tmp\\1\\cafw.fdb"; const String DLLPath = @"fbembed.dll"; const String Charset = "WIN1251"; const int Dialect = 3; #endregion //I check whether we actually have a database file nearby //and fbembed.dll. If we don't - we leave if (File.Exists(DBPath) == true && File.Exists(DLLPath) == true) { //I form up a connection string out of literals I've declared above FbConnectionStringBuilder CStr = new FbConnectionStringBuilder(); CStr.ServerType = FbServerType.Embedded; CStr.UserID = User; CStr.Password = Password; CStr.Dialect = Dialect; CStr.Database = DBPath; CStr.Charset = Charset; CStr.ClientLibrary = DLLPath; //And then I finally try to connect FbConnection Conn = new FbConnection(CStr.ToString()); try { //See what we've got in the end Console.WriteLine(CStr.ToString()); //And try to connect Conn.Open(); } catch (Exception Ex) { //Show me what has gone wrong Console.WriteLine("\n" + Ex.Message.ToString()); Console.ReadKey(); } finally { Conn.Close(); } } } The problem is, it yields me a server type=Embedded;user id=SYSDBA;password=masterkey;dialect=3;initial catalog=D:!tmp\1 \cafw.fdb;character set=WIN1251;client library=fbembed.dll No message for error code 335544972 found. Invalid ESCAPE sequence as an output. I've googled around to find out about 335544972 error code, and it seems to be something about invalid connection string, but I haven't found any "official" info about that. Hase anybody encountered anything similar so one could tell me what am I doing wrong? Thanks.

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  • Delphi: how to create Firebird database programmatically

    - by Brad
    I'm using D2K9, Zeos 7Alpha, and Firebird 2.1 I had this working before I added the autoinc field. Although I'm not sure I was doing it 100% correctly. I don' know what order to do the SQL code, with the triggers, Generators, etc.. I've tried several combinations, I'm guessing I'm doing something wrong other than just that for this not to work. SQL File From IB Expert : /********************************************/ /* Generated by IBExpert 5/4/2010 3:59:48 PM / /*********************************************/ /********************************************/ /* Following SET SQL DIALECT is just for the Database Comparer / /*********************************************/ SET SQL DIALECT 3; /********************************************/ /* Tables / /*********************************************/ CREATE GENERATOR GEN_EMAIL_ACCOUNTS_ID; CREATE TABLE EMAIL_ACCOUNTS ( ID INTEGER NOT NULL, FNAME VARCHAR(35), LNAME VARCHAR(35), ADDRESS VARCHAR(100), CITY VARCHAR(35), STATE VARCHAR(35), ZIPCODE VARCHAR(20), BDAY DATE, PHONE VARCHAR(20), UNAME VARCHAR(255), PASS VARCHAR(20), EMAIL VARCHAR(255), CREATEDDATE DATE, "ACTIVE" BOOLEAN DEFAULT 0 NOT NULL /* BOOLEAN = SMALLINT CHECK (value is null or value in (0, 1)) /, BANNED BOOLEAN DEFAULT 0 NOT NULL / BOOLEAN = SMALLINT CHECK (value is null or value in (0, 1)) /, "PUBLIC" BOOLEAN DEFAULT 0 NOT NULL / BOOLEAN = SMALLINT CHECK (value is null or value in (0, 1)) */, NOTES BLOB SUB_TYPE 0 SEGMENT SIZE 1024 ); /********************************************/ /* Primary Keys / /*********************************************/ ALTER TABLE EMAIL_ACCOUNTS ADD PRIMARY KEY (ID); /********************************************/ /* Triggers / /*********************************************/ SET TERM ^ ; /********************************************/ /* Triggers for tables / /*********************************************/ /* Trigger: EMAIL_ACCOUNTS_BI */ CREATE OR ALTER TRIGGER EMAIL_ACCOUNTS_BI FOR EMAIL_ACCOUNTS ACTIVE BEFORE INSERT POSITION 0 AS BEGIN IF (NEW.ID IS NULL) THEN NEW.ID = GEN_ID(GEN_EMAIL_ACCOUNTS_ID,1); END ^ SET TERM ; ^ /********************************************/ /* Privileges / /*********************************************/ Triggers: /********************************************/ /* Following SET SQL DIALECT is just for the Database Comparer / /*********************************************/ SET SQL DIALECT 3; CREATE GENERATOR GEN_EMAIL_ACCOUNTS_ID; SET TERM ^ ; CREATE OR ALTER TRIGGER EMAIL_ACCOUNTS_BI FOR EMAIL_ACCOUNTS ACTIVE BEFORE INSERT POSITION 0 AS BEGIN IF (NEW.ID IS NULL) THEN NEW.ID = GEN_ID(GEN_EMAIL_ACCOUNTS_ID,1); END ^ SET TERM ; ^ Generators: CREATE SEQUENCE GEN_EMAIL_ACCOUNTS_ID; ALTER SEQUENCE GEN_EMAIL_ACCOUNTS_ID RESTART WITH 2; /* Old syntax is: CREATE GENERATOR GEN_EMAIL_ACCOUNTS_ID; SET GENERATOR GEN_EMAIL_ACCOUNTS_ID TO 2; */ My Code: procedure TForm2.New1Click(Sender: TObject); var query:string; begin if JvOpenDialog1.Execute then begin ZConnection1.Disconnect; ZConnection1.Database:= jvOpenDialog1.FileName; if not FileExists(ZConnection1.database) then begin ZConnection1.Properties.Add('createnewdatabase=create database '''+ZConnection1.Database+''' user ''sysdba'' password ''masterkey'' page_size 4096 default character set iso8859_2;'); try ZConnection1.Connect; except ShowMessage('Error Connection To Database File'); application.Terminate; end; end else begin ShowMessage('Database File Already Exists.'); exit; end; end; query := 'CREATE DOMAIN BOOLEAN AS SMALLINT CHECK (value is null or value in (0, 1))'; Zconnection1.ExecuteDirect(query); query:='CREATE TABLE EMAIL_ACCOUNTS (ID INTEGER NOT NULL,FNAME VARCHAR(35),LNAME VARCHAR(35),'+ 'ADDRESS VARCHAR(100), CITY VARCHAR(35), STATE VARCHAR(35), ZIPCODE VARCHAR(20),' + 'BDAY DATE, PHONE VARCHAR(20), UNAME VARCHAR(255), PASS VARCHAR(20),' + 'EMAIL VARCHAR(255),CREATEDDATE DATE , '+ '"ACTIVE" BOOLEAN DEFAULT 0 NOT NULL,'+ 'BANNED BOOLEAN DEFAULT 0 NOT NULL,'+ '"PUBLIC" BOOLEAN DEFAULT 0 NOT NULL,' + 'NOTES BLOB SUB_TYPE 0 SEGMENT SIZE 1024)'; //ZConnection.ExecuteDirect('CREATE TABLE NOTES (noteTitle TEXT PRIMARY KEY,noteDate DATE,noteNote TEXT)'); Zconnection1.ExecuteDirect(query); { } query := 'CREATE SEQUENCE GEN_EMAIL_ACCOUNTS_ID;'+ 'ALTER SEQUENCE GEN_EMAIL_ACCOUNTS_ID RESTART WITH 1'; Zconnection1.ExecuteDirect(query); query := 'ALTER TABLE EMAIL_ACCOUNTS ADD PRIMARY KEY (ID)'; Zconnection1.ExecuteDirect(query); query := 'SET TERM ^'; Zconnection1.ExecuteDirect(query); query := 'CREATE OR ALTER TRIGGER EMAIL_ACCOUNTS_BI FOR EMAIL_ACCOUNTS'+ 'ACTIVE BEFORE INSERT POSITION 0'+ 'AS'+ 'BEGIN'+ 'IF (NEW.ID IS NULL) THEN'+ 'NEW.ID = GEN_ID(GEN_EMAIL_ACCOUNTS_ID,1);'+ 'END'+ '^'+ 'SET TERM ; ^'; Zconnection1.ExecuteDirect(query); ZTable1.Active:=true; end;

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  • Firebird Insert Distinct Data Using ZeosLib and Delphi

    - by Brad
    I'm using Zeos 7, and Delphi 2K9 and want to check to see if a value is already in the database under a specific field before I post the data to the database. Example: Field Keyword Values of Cheese, Mouse, Trap tblkeywordKEYWORD.Value = Cheese What is wrong with the following? And is there a better way? zQueryKeyword.SQL.Add('IF NOT EXISTS(Select KEYWORD from KEYWORDLIST ='''+ tblkeywordKEYWORD.Value+''')INSERT into KEYWORDLIST(KEYWORD) VALUES ('''+ tblkeywordKEYWORD.Value+'''))'); zQueryKeyword.ExecSql; I tried using the unique constraint in IB Expert, but it gives the following error: Invalid insert or update value(s): object columns are constrained - no 2 table rows can have duplicate column values. attempt to store duplicate value (visible to active transactions) in unique index "UNQ1_KEYWORDLIST". Thanks for any help -Brad

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  • Delphi, Csv,Import Firebird

    - by Vijesh V.Nair
    Lemme explain my problem. I have One ID and 2 Other Fields in a CsV file. the ID connected to a database table. I have to show the curresponding entries in the db and fields from Csv. Need sort the Fields too. My Idea was load into a ClientDataset, lookup to a Query with table and Use sort and show. My Csv have 85 K Records and its taking 120 seconds to load and sort, Its not acceptable. Can you tell me, can I use Bacthmove for this. So I can easily pick fields by a simple query. if I can use Bacthmove Plz give me the guild lines. Also Is there any other Techniques for this? Thanks and Regards, Vijesh V.Nair

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  • Porting an IBXpress Interbase 6 app to the current Firebird platform, on Delphi 7?

    - by robsoft
    Just wondering if there are any gotchas to be wary of here. We have a legacy D7 app that we developed several years ago for a client, which uses IBXpress to talk to the open source Interbase 6 build. We're having a number of issues with that platform these days (very slow to connect/start-up on new hardware being the chief one) and the client has okayed spending some time/money moving the database over to Firebird. We really DON'T want to embark upon moving it to D2010 (or D2007 which would be my preference right now) as we figure that we might have to move the database layer from IBXpress to something else to best suit Firebird anyway. And at the end of the day, the client is only looking to lessen the database pain, not overhaul/upgrade/rewrite the app. Given the ancestry of Firebird, is it a fairly painless, well-understood path from IBXpress Interbase 6 to (whatever) with Firebird? We have quite a number of sprocs, triggers (and even datatypes) etc in the existing IB database already (and the client has a number of paying customers all using this platform) so we felt that going to Firebird was more likely to be a smoother move than moving to SQL Express (or another flavour of DB entirely). Note that we're not looking for 'embedded' DB advocacy - in many of our client's customers' installations, the software is used in a multi-user client-server way so keeping that kind of approach is important.

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  • SQlite/Firebird: Does any of them support multiple concurrent write access ?

    - by Quandary
    Question: I currently store ASP.net application data in XML files. Now the problem is I have asynchronous operations, which means I ran into the problem of simultanous write access on a XML file... Now, I'm considering moving to an embedded database to solve the issue. I'm currently considering SQlite and embeddable Firebird. I'm not sure however if SQlite or Firebird can handle multiple concurrent write access. And I certainly don't want the same problem again. Anybody knows ? SQlite certainly is better known, but which one is better - SQlite or Firebird ? I tend to say Firebird, but I don't really know. No MS-Access or MS-SQL-express recommodations please, I'm a sane person.

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  • Delphi Client-Server Application using Firebird 2.5 error

    - by Japie Bosman
    I have got a lengthy question to ask. First of all Im still very new when it comes to Delphi programming and my experience has beem mostly developing small single user database applications using ADO and an Access database. I need to take the transition now to a client server application and this is where the problem starts. I decided to use Firebird 2.5 embeded as my database, as it is open source, and it is can be used with the interbase components in Delphi and that multiple clients can access the database simultanously. So I followed the interbase tutorial in Delphi. I managed to connect the client to the server and see the data in the example (While both are running on my pc), but when i tried to move the client to another pc, keeping the server on mine and running it to see if I can connect to the server it gave me the following error. Exception EIdSocketError in module clientDemo.exe at 0029DCAC. Socket Error # 10061 Connection refused. I understand that this might be because the host is defined as localhost in the client. But here is my first question. In the TSQLConncetion you can set die hostname under Driver-Hostname. The thing I want to know is how do you do this at run time, as I cannot get the property when I try and make an edit box to allow the user to enter the value and then set it via code like for example: SQLConncetion1.Driver.Hostname := edtHost.text; The thing is there is not such property to set, so how do you set the hostname at run time? Im using Delphi XE2 There is still a lot of questions to come especially when it comes to deployment, but I will take this piece by piece and I appreciate the advice.

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  • High memory utilization with firebird + windows server 2008 r2

    - by chesterman
    i have a Windows Server 2008 R2 (64bit) running a 64bit installation of Firebird 2.1.4.18393_0 in a 4GB phisical server. After a while, the task manager show that all memory is used, but the sum of the memory of all process does not stack to the half of the memory. Unfortunally, it's start swapping. Using RAMMAP, i can see that my entire database file is mapped into the memory. This only occours in windows server 2008 r2 and windows 7 64 bit. i can use firebird 32 or 64bit installations, doesn't matter. How can i prevent this? Why this only occours in w2k8r2 and w7? tks in advance ** UPDATE Aparently, this occours by the use of all memory by the file system cache. The microsoft documentations explain that this WAS a issue in windows xp, 2k3, vista and 2k8, but it was solved in 7 and 2k8r2. also adds that this issue is more common in 64bit hosts. (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976618) there are some tools (DynCache, setcache and the Get/SetSystemFileCacheSize system calls from windows API) that allows me to fix a upper limit to the memory usage by the fscache, but the documentation argues that i should not do this in w2k8r2 because it will severely impact on the overall system performance. anyway, i tried, the performance remained the same shit and the use of the page file remained, although there is now more the 1gb of free memory.

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  • Which are the RDBMS that minimize the server roundtrips? Which RDBMS are better (in this area) than

    - by user193655
    When the latency is high ("when pinging the server takes time") the server roundtrips make the difference. Now I don't want to focus on the roundtrips created in programming, but the roundtrips that occur "under the hood" in the DB engine, so the roundtrips that are 100% dependant on how the RDBMS is written itself. I have been told that FireBird has more roundtrips than MySQL. But this is the only information I know. I am currently supporting MS SQL but I'd like to change RDBMS (because I use Express Editions and in my scenario they are quite limiting from the performance point of view), so to make a wise choice I would like to include also this point into "my RDBMS comparison feature matrix" to understand which is the best RDBMS to choose as an alternative to MS SQL. So the bold sentence above would make me prefer MySQL to Firebird (for the roundtrips concept, not in general), but can anyone add informations? And MS SQL where is it located? Is someone able to "rank" the roundtrip performance of the main RDBMS, or at least: MS SQL, MySql, Postegresql, Firebird (I am not interested in Oracle since it is not free, and if I have to change I would change to a free RDBMS). Anyway MySql (as mentioned several times on stackoverflow) has a not clear future and a not 100% free license. So my final choice will probably dall on PostgreSQL or Firebird. Additional info: somehow you can answer my question by making a simple list like: MSSQL:3; MySQL:1; Firebird:2; Postgresql:2 (where 1 is good, 2 average, 3 bad). Of course if you can post some links where the roundtrips per RDBMSs are compared it would be great

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