At 08:51 PM 18/01/2009, you wrote:

>Also, as I mentioned, the sample db appears to be missing
>from the 2.04 server-exe distribution - now that is an error.

Yep, it's there. Several things changed with Fb2...you should be looking in $firebird$\examples\empbuild\

But the ODS 11 employee.fdb won't work with Fb 1.5.

HB