loris.luise@... [firebird-support] wrote:

> I need your help and/or suggestions to solve a (maybe uncommon) task.
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> I searched a lot on the web and I had some success using a tool called
> fbclone but
> this is definitely not a solution (due to extreme slowness of the
> conversion, many days,
> something must be wrong with this software)
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> I have a large Firebird 2.5 DB (a couple of tables have few millions
> records) to convert from WIN1251 charset to UTF8 charset.
>
> Is there a way to do efficiently this kind of conversion? (preferably
> not using a intermediate text sql dump, that would not applicable
> because the size of the DB).
>
> I'm using Firebird on a linux machine, and I really like to do the job
> using a bash script,
> but I can fallback also using a remote Windows pc.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> Best regards.

Hej,

maybe this one is of help:
http://www.ibphoenix.com/resources/documents/design/doc_150

hth, Marcus

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