firebird

I need to combine two tables with 1 to many relationship using union but to no success. I've been trying to use this code select a.equipmentid, a.codename, a.name, a.labelid, a.ACQUISITIONDATE, a.description from TBL_EQUIPMENTMST a where a.partofid = '57' union all select first 1 b.warrantyid, b.startdate, b.enddate from tbl_equipwarranty b inner join TBL_EQUIPMENTMST c on b.equipmentid=c.equipmentid where c.partofid = '57' and b.servicetype='service' order by b.warrantyid desc union all select first 1 d.warrantyid, d.startdate, d.enddate from tbl_equipwarranty d inner join TBL_EQUIPMENTMST e

RedGate makes a tool for Microsoft SQL Server that allows you to snapshot the difference between two databases. It generates the scripts needed to update the database schema while preserving the data. I need to find a tool like this for the Firebird database. We use Firebird in an embedded fashion, and would like to push out schema updates to remote machines with as little hassle as possible. I don't know of a tool for Firebird that does exactly the same. However, FlameRobin allows you to extract the metadata for single database objects or the complete database. It can also create scripts to

Server: Windows 2008 R2 x64 with Firebird 2.5 x64 I need a sorting methode like the German phonebook at a Query e.g. SELECT Name, Forename FROM Address ORDER BY Name, Forename; I want as result: Name, Forename Assemann, Simon Aßmann, Erika Assmann, Frank Astmann, Manfred Hacker, Simon Hackmann, Gustav Häcker, Emil Haecker, Manfred Häcker, Xaver Hafermann, Ulrich In the German phonebook sorting, the German special characters are handled at following way: Ä/ä = Ae/ae Ö/ö = Oe/oe Ü/ü = Ue/ue ß = ss Other special characters like the French ones (á, à…) is handled like the normal characters (a,a…).

I have several databases in Firebird using IBExpert as the GUI admin. I am changing over to MySQL. I can use IBExpert to backup the database (which gives me the full structure and data) but the gbak format can't be read by phpMyAdmin. PhpMyAdmin has an export command that dumps the data and/or structure of the active database to an sql file. Is it possible to do something similar with IBExpert? You can use the FBExport tool to generate a dump with inserts. However I am not sure if it is still maintained and works with the latest Firebird versions (it says it was tested against Firebird 1.0 - 2

I'm migrating one website with java/jsf for Node/Angular but i have the problem for convert blob from firebird database to base64 using node-firebird. connection.query(query,function(err,rows){ if(err) { res.json({"Error" : true, "Message" : "Error executing query"}); } else { var buffer; var bufferBase64; for(var i = 0; i < rows.length; i++){ rows[i].image(function(err, name, eventEmitter) { eventEmitter.on('data', function(chunk) { buffer = new Buffer(chunk, 'binary').toString('base64'); bufferBase64 += buffer; }); eventEmitter.on('end', function() { console.log(bufferBase64); // print