----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Chapman (JAC2)" <jason@...>
Newsgroups: egroups.ib-support
To: <ib-support@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 05:03 AM
Subject: Re: [ib-support] Arithmetic exception, numeric overflow, or string
truncation


> Have you changed the width of any columns dynamically by updating the
domain
> directly?
> JAC
>
> ""Dion Oliphant"" <dion@...> wrote in message
> news:000001c275c0$d870b1b0$3700a8c0@......
> > Hi,
> >
> > When I backup my database, I get no errors. When I restore, I get the
> > following error:-
> >
> > 1. Arithmetic exception, numeric overflow, or string truncation.
> >
> > I tried the advice suggested path as laid out in the docs on the
Firebird
> > site ie:-
> >
> > 1. Define the following two variables, it makes life easier, in that
you
> do
> > not have to type in the user name and password every time you issue a
> > command.
> > SET ISC_USER=SYSDBA
> > SET ISC_PASSWORD=masterkey
> > 2. Always make sure you work on a copy of the database, not the
production
> > database. Use the operating system to make a copy of the database. You
> must
> > have exclusive access to the database to do this.
> > copy employee.gdb database.gdb
> > 3. Now check for database corruption. You must have exclusive access to
do
> > this, but since you're working on a copy of the original database, this
is
> > not a problem.
> > gfix -v -full database.gdb
> >
> > etc...
> > but find no errors(at least not on the screen). I pick up the above
error
> > when trying to restore the backed up database.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dion.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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