Hi Reinhard,

Glad that worked! Your English is fine, by the way.

Rick

----- Original Message -----

> Thank you Rick!
>
> I have created a new dialect 3 database. And now it works.
>
> Sorry about my English and thanks.
> Reinhard
>
>
> --- In Firebird-Java@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Fincher" <rnf@t...> wrote:
> > Hi Reinhard,
> >
> > You need to create the database TEST.gdb as a dialect 3 database.
> >
> > The error message:
> >
> > > Metadata update statement is not allowed by the current database
> SQL
> > dialect 1
> >
> > means that dialect 1 doesn't support the operation you are trying to
> > perform.
> >
> > I was under the impression that Firebird 1.5 won't support dialect
> 1 or 2
> > databases, but I could be wrong about that.
> >
> > If you have older databases that were created with dialect 1 or 2
> you will
> > need to migrate them to dialect 3. Otherwise, just be sure to
> create them
> > as dialect 3.
> >
> > If you are using some of the older tools to create the database,
> they might
> > default to dialect 1, and you will have to specify dialect 3 before
> creating
> > the database.
> >
> > Hope this helps!
> >
> > Rick