>>I have read somewhere that I can't access Firebird from BDE. IS that true?
>No. Problems have been reported trying to access a Dialect 3 database with

the old version of the BDE, >specifically the IB driver doesn't know about
new/changed data types in Dialect 3.

As someone said before, your response is fast and accurate as usual. Thank
you!

>With Delphi 6, Borland issued a new version of the BDE and a new driver for

IB 6 but this one seems >still to have a bug with the Dialect 3 Timestamp
type.

What about the opposite: accessing Interbase 5.5 database from Firebird 6 or
IB6 (is it accepted to call the borland's distribution "IB" as opposed to
"FB" for firebird?)? Are there any bugs reported.

>These problems affect Dialect 3, regardless of whether it is Firebird or IB

6. As for Dialect 1, well, BDE >5.1 and the IB 5 driver aren't *certified*
for IB 6 so, if you get the expected results, it's a bonus.

Ha. Lately I am having serious problems with some of borland's code. To me
it seems that at least a couple of their devopments are going the
"Microsoft" way. :(((

Best regards,

-- Dimitar