Increasing Page Sizing for a Firebird Database

Altium NEXUS works seamlessly with your existing Altium Vault (2.0 or later). However, as a standalone product, Altium Vault (and specifically version 3.0) is the last release with new capabilities. The technology will continue to evolve and advance as a core part of Altium NEXUS through a server of its own (cloud-hosted, or on-premise flavors of a 'NEXUS Server') that will expose new capabilities for collaboration, data management, and process management.

Switching over from your existing Altium Vault, to the NEXUS Server (on-premise) is simply a case of upgrading, by running the Altium NEXUS Server installer - just as you would have updated your Vault in the past.

Upgrading to the NEXUS Server requires that the existing Firebird database PAGE_SIZE be 16kb. Depending on the version of Altium Vault you currently have installed, this may well be 4kb.

While you could change the PAGE_SIZE manually, a batch file (firebird_increase_page_size.bat) has been prepared to quickly increase the page sizing for your current Vault's Firebird database from 4k to 16k - efficiently, hassle-free, and all with a single click! Simply download the zip file, extract the batch file, and copy the file to the following location (assuming C drive - change as necessary for your installation):

C:\Program Files (x86)\Firebird\Firebird_2_5\bin

Then, bring up an Administrative CMD window (i.e. run as Administrator) and navigate to that same folder by typing:

cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Firebird\Firebird_2_5\bin

Finally, run the following at the command prompt:

firebird_increase_page_size.bat "C:\Program Files (x86)\Firebird\Firebird_2_5\bin" "C:\ProgramData\Altium\VaultServerData\DXPSERVER.DAT" sysdba masterkey