At 29/01/2002 01:39 PM, you wrote:

>Should I conclude that IB lacks a lot of handy functions that all other
>RDBMS have ?

IB and FB uses SQL-92 standards and I didn't find anything related to this
in it. I use a UDF that returns this value when needed. The UDF comes
from the FreeUDF library. One thing to keep in mind is that Borland almost
discontinued IB 2 years ago and had started the steps a little longer than
that. So it's safe to say, that Borland wasn't interested in improving the
product at that time. If it wasn't for tenacious developers, IB would be
history today.

>Now that I am at it, the list of functions contained in the LangRef looks
>rather slim...
>
>What do you think ?

I know some of the functions are not listed, because they were added to the
language after the document was created. But to say that it's slim, I
don't think so, it covers about 98 % of the language for IB and FB.

Have a nice day.


Daniel Rail
Senior System Engineer
ACCRA Group Inc. (www.accra.ca)
ACCRA Med Software Inc. (www.accramed.ca)