We have an application that work w/o interruptions with Firebird 1.52,
the Database process transacctions 24/7, after some days the
transaccions get slower and the Database grows to much (in a period of
1 to 2 weeks)

The solutions we take are:

1.- Reset the server

2.- Backup and restore the database (after that the side of the
database shrinks a lot)

My question is why do this ocurrs?

and what could it be the solution?

The application MUST NOT STOP, so, how can we purge the dabase w/o
shut it down or avoid the problems explained?

Thx.