There have been a number of requests in the past for Firebird to be able to list
available databases to help users out. Fortunately it does not seem to have got
any strong support which having just found something out - I'm quite glad about.

I've taken over a web hosting operation that has code written over a number of
years, initially in ASP and later the guy saw the light and switched to PHP. But
some of the older code is still running with a combination of databases
including MSSQL ( and even Access but that is another story ). I'd been asked to
check into some problems on a site which has a MSSQL database so I fired up the
JDBC driver and got a copy of the login details. Imaging my surprise when having
connected I can see ALL of the databases hosted on this ISP's SQL2008 server!
All right I can't log in using the credentials, but I have a good start to
hacking all of them?

Firebird has one very nice 'plus' ... each database can be safely ring fenced
and managed in isolation ... perhaps that should be used more strongly as a
reason NOT to add some 'features' people complain are missing?

Next job - port the data to Firebird ...

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Lester Caine - G8HFL
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