--- In Firebird-Architect@yahoogroups.com, Milan Babuskov
<milanb@k...>
wrote:

> I have a question. Why isn't service API completely removed and

replaced with

> extensions to SQL? Have a
>
> BACKUP DATABASE TO 'filename.gbk' ...
>
> RESTORE DATABASE '/dbases/mydb.fdb' FROM 'filename.gbk';
>
> CREATE USER 'name' PASS 'pwd';
>

Agree. "CREATE DATABASE" is already more or less done that way. I
seem to recall that Jim already cleaned up the code for that in
Vulcan.

Paul