On Wed, 3 Apr 2002 11:35:15 -0600 "Woody" <woody.tmw@...> wrote

[snip]

>The newly recommended style is to create a one row table to
> use for this purpose only and substitute it for RDB$DATABASE.

Don't know about it being 'newly' recommended, I've always done this.

create table dummy
(
id integer not null;
);
insert into dummy values(1);

Regards