I have a large query in Firebird (which I run using FlameRobin), using a parameter all over the place, but getting the query below to run will do: SELECT * FROM customers WHERE customerid = 1234; ...

With InterClient 7.5.1 and 8.1.5, the creation of a new JDBC connection in Java 8 fails with java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: sun/io/ByteToCharConverter This class seems to be referenced or used ...

My familiarity is with the Microsoft SQL server world using ADO (dbGo), and I have written many applications for that environment. Now I have a legacy Delphi 7 application with a Firebird 2.5 datab...

Hello code enthusiasts! I have a question, which is no doubt due to some inexperience of my Delphi XE2 knowledge. I'll try to explain it here. Introduction: I have an Interbase database with dat...

I'm creating a simple isql script but it's not working and I need some help to find out whats wrong with it. I need to connect to a database and execute a SQL file. This is my script called script....

We have an Interbase 7.1 database and I'm trying to figure out how to limit the number of records returned by the query to just 1. I really only need to know an event code from the last record, in ...

Recently some Delphi / InterBase applications display "Record not found or changed by another user" They use the default TSQLQuery/TClientDataSet (or TSimpleDataSet) components of dbExpress. We...

OK I know this has been deprecated, and bde is older than Moses, but we have some legacy applications that have not been migrated still using bde. Has anyone been successfull in installing bde WIT...

I have a file with an extension .ib. I am guessing it is either an Interbase or a Firebird file, but I am having trouble working out exactly which. Furthermore, it isn't clear exactly which version...

I am using Firebird, but lately the database grows really seriously. There is really a lot of delete statements running, as well update/inserts, and the database file size grows really fast. After ...

We are on a situation where we must choose between thoose 2 databases. We are currently on Firebird, but sometime it lag because of it stacking too much transaction history or something and backup-...

Currently, our database uses Win1252 as the only character encoding. We will have to support Unicode in the database tables soon, which means we have to perform this migration for four databases an...

I have a database in Interbase and I want to access it directly from my Rails app using ActiveRecord. How can I do it?

I created a view on a machine using the substring function from Firebird, and it worked. When I copied the database to a different machine, the view was broken. This is the way I used it: SELECT S...