> I'd hate to see this excellent publicity opportunity wasted. I'm sure I'm

not

> the most qualified of the members of this list to do a technical article

on

> using Firebird, but I'd consider it if nobody else wants to. I don't have

much

> experience with events, but I've done some custom UDFs. The ability to add

user

> defined functions is pretty unique to Interbase/Firebird, isn't it?

No, it isn't :-)

MS SQL calls them Extended Procedure, MySQL has them,
Oracle, DB2 etc...

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
Database Workbench - developer tool for InterBase, Firebird, MySQL & MS SQL
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