At 04:35 PM 06-09-01 +0200, you wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I have an (windows)-application that can use a paradox or an Interbase
>database. It's written in Delphi5, so it goes through the BDE.
>With paradox it works fine.
>Now I've tried the firebird odbc-driver (With Interbase 6.01 database).
>The bde seems to create automatically an alias for every registered
>odbc driver. Therefor, to change the database, I only have to use
>another alias.
>
>With Interbase I've got the following.
>- All the selects from my app work,
>- I can also delete records.
>- But I can not update/insert. I always get a message saying "Table is
>readonly".
>I used a tquery component, and the tdatabase.readonly property is of
>ourse set to false.
>It seems to me that this is a bde/delphi problem nut I'm not sure.
>
>Can anybody help me?

If you transferred the database file via CD-Rom, you will need to set the ReadOnly property false in Windows Explorer.

Helen

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