I'm not sure how to connect to another database from within a database in
Firebird.

It's a trick I was very familiar with in Oracle but have never learned how
to do in Firebird. I'd be interested to find out.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Anand" <akashelkar@...>
To: <firebird-support@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 8:20 AM
Subject: [firebird-support] Re: Re: Upgrading a database


> Thanks both Alexandre and Carl :) Fortunately we don't have any
> triggers,
> and the views don't use any SPs, so that's a few dependencies
> less :) Since
> the previous design was not properly normalized, we had to
> revamp it almost
> completely, so dependency-wise it's not too complicated right
> now. However
> since this design will remain stable now, with only a few
> additions as per
> feature requirements, we shall soon look towards adding triggers
> and
> introducing more constraints in the near future. Your advice
> will surely be
> useful at that time.
>
> Yes, I have documented the table design, but not the SPs and
> Views. It's
> easy but time-consuming, and as always, we are short of time :(
> I am using
> a freeware tool IBExpert (Personal Edition) and it does show the
> dependencies of an object as also the metadata, so that's not a
> problem for
> me.
>
> What I would like to know more if I were to create a separate
> database
> containing the new structure, say DBNew, and I wanted to use a
> few SPs to
> copy data from the old database, say DBOld, into the DBNew,
> would it be
> possible and how? Then I could create the new structure in a
> separate GDB
> file, copy all the old data, and then simply delete the old GDB
> file and
> rename the new one. I just am not sure if I can do this easily
> from within
> SPs written in DBNew, or would I need to use my application to
> perform the
> data transfer.
>
>
> Anand
>
> 21. Re: Upgrading a database
> From: Alexandre Benson Smith
> <iblist@...>
>
>
> 23. Re: Upgrading a database
> From: "Carl Peto" <carl@...>
>
>
>
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