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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>If it was FireBird &#8220;not keeping up&#8221; then I would expect
occasional transactions to be missed, not duplicated.&nbsp; That sounds more like
FireBird not having enough to do, so making work for itself just so as to have
something to do whilst waiting around for the workstation to get into gear and
sent the next piece of <b><u>real</u></b> work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>The database equivalent of twiddling it&#8217;s thumbs.&nbsp; </span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>J</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>It sounds more like you have a simple (?) error in the code
running on your workstation resulting in it sending duplicate transactions (I
am guessing that by &#8220;transaction&#8221; here you mean an &#8220;insert statement&#8221;, rather
than some complex series of DML statements).<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>
delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz] <b>On Behalf
Of </b>John Bird<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 22 July 2010 13:27<br>
<b>To:</b> NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [DUG] Firebird transactions<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The
error is same transaction going in twice, each one with different ID (from the
Generator) but otherwise the same.&nbsp;&nbsp; The generator is fired by the
program,&nbsp; so looks like its the calling program somehow doing the same
processing twice.&nbsp; Not helped by the fact that the program is running
these bursts of transactions on an old slow Windows 2000 box...just wanted to
eliminate Firebird not keeping up.</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>John</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal>Hi<br>
<br>
FB should easily handle this. What is your error?<br>
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Cheers<br>
Rob <o:p></o:p></p>

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On 22/07/2010 12:30 p.m., John Bird wrote: <o:p></o:p></p>

<pre>Dealing with a timing issue involving Firebird, probably the cause is a slow <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>workstation running the processing program.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></pre><pre>The workstation occasionally sends a burst of transactions, each involving <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>adding new records to the same two tables.&nbsp; I presume Firebird can handle <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>this<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></pre><pre>The server is a FAST quad core Windows 2003 server running Firebird 2.0 - it <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>should handle a burst of transactions at up to 5 per second for up to 20 or <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>30 seconds?<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></pre><pre>John <o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></pre><pre><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></pre><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Post: <a
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