--- In ib-support@y..., "Gerhard Knapp" <prometheus@a...> wrote:

> i want only a new id, as value in the program, for something ..

Gerhard, if you need next unique value and don't want assotiate it
with some column in opened dataset automatically, the simplest and
fastest is

Select Gen_ID(MyGen,1) From rdb$database

Best regards, Alexander V.Nevsky.