Hi,

> Am I correct in thinking that the following can not be performed in
> a prepared statement in the beta one release?
>
> SELECT GEN_ID(SEQUENCE_NAME, 1) AS NEWKEY FROM RDB$DATABASE

Do not know about beta 1, but current CVS version does allow this
(just checked it in JDBC explorer). But I think it works in beta 1
too.

Best regards,
Roman Rokytskyy