http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-support/ Support for Users of Firebird Releases Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:38:20 GMT HJ http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-support/message/96758 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-support/message/96758 ... You can postpone all update to stock, customer balance table etc. etc and then create separate process to periodically update them. In case you want to Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:22:33 GMT Robert Zimmermann http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-support/message/96757 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-support/message/96757 Hey mates, I'm calculating some statistics stuff using a procedure. That procedure ("gen_stats") is being called by passing the record ID in my "raw data" Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:00:28 GMT Nols Smit http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-support/message/96756 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-support/message/96756 Hi, I .even host from VMWare workstation over ADSL My mix is: IBReplicater, Win2000 with Apache (will move to Windows Server 2008 Web Edition and use IIS), Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:40:23 GMT miekejanson http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-support/message/96755 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-support/message/96755 Goodmorning, Now the next thing happened..... All users worked the database yesterday. I made a backup at 4:30, everything fine. They close my application Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:38:59 GMT mieke janson http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-support/message/96754 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-support/message/96754 Goodmorning, Now the next thing happened..... All users worked the database yesterday. I made a backup at 4:30, everything fine. They close my application Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:27:45 GMT b0bik2000 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-support/message/96753 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-support/message/96753 Hello I'd like to use keyword CONTAINING to find records than contain given substring. The field type is BLOB SUB_TYPE TEXT, and i put into this field text Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:21:36 GMT Alexandre Benson Smith http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-support/message/96752 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-support/message/96752 ... ooopss. I mixed the order... it should be 2.) start a transaction for a group of changes (let's say for every 5k changes), commit and start a new Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:28:31 GMT Alexandre Benson Smith http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-support/message/96751 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-support/message/96751 ... I don't know if this is you real case, but assuming it is.. let's take another approach... I will talk at very high level, not entering all the details and Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:06:19 GMT Alexandre Benson Smith http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-support/message/96750 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-support/message/96750 ... Besides what everyone said, that a transaction (group of changes that should be atomic) should represent your business requirements to leave the database Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:05:53 GMT Helen Borrie http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-support/message/96749 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-support/message/96749 ... Actually, that's not the problem. The problem is that Windows takes "asynchronous" to the nth-degree and actually does not perform the write until the Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:03:08 GMT Adam http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-support/message/96748 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-support/message/96748 ... Surprisingly easily. If you were to let clumsy Adam near your server to trip over the power cord between the UPS and the server at the worst possible Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:00:12 GMT Ann W. Harrison http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-support/message/96747 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-support/message/96747 ... All of the people who have told you that you should look for logically connected pieces of work and include them all in a single transaction are right. To Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:12:44 GMT Gary Benner http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-support/message/96746 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-support/message/96746 ... without any trouble, installed in many flavors of Windows as well as Gentoo Linux. ... for the guest OS. ... I agree. Firebird should see the OS the same, Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:09:35 GMT Alexandre Benson Smith http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-support/message/96745 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-support/message/96745 ... Besides what Fidel already said.... Only one field ? No indexed searches as far as I can see... Does not sounds good to me. see you ! -- Alexandre Benson Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:48:39 GMT Ann W. Harrison http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-support/message/96744 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-support/message/96744 ... Actually, it's a complete list of the Pointer Pages for a table. Check the ibphoenix knowledge base for a great deal of information about Pointer Pages.