At 09:48 PM 10-04-01 -0400, you wrote:

>At 4/10/2001 12:21 PM (Tuesday), Helen Borrie wrote:
> >How feasible would it be to provide the facility to link DDL scripts? A
> >question on the IBO list just prompted my memory that I've often
> >considered it would be grand to have scripts that could end {INCLUDE
> >script2.sql} or similar, in order to chain my sets of DDL.
>
>This actually works in Interbase 5.6 via the INPUT command. This example is
>taken from a production system:
>
>INPUT Soc0S.sql;
>INPUT Soc1D.sql;
>INPUT Soc2G.sql;
>INPUT Soc3T.sql;
>INPUT Soc4C.sql;
>INPUT Soc5P.sql;
>INPUT Soc6I.sql;
>INPUT Soc7U.sql;
>INPUT Soc8D.sql;
>INPUT Soc9X.sql;
>COMMIT;

Doug - thanks!

>However, I have heard from one developer that this no longer works in
>Interbase 6. I have not had a chance to verify the problem but if it exists
>I would think this would be an easy thing to restore.

I can't check it on my current setup but if someone could verify it, it needs to go into Firebird's buglist...

Cheers,
Helen

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