Thank you Thomas;

Where in the Firebird site can I find the fixed driver? I'd need it to have
my application working properly by now. And of course I'll go for the
Firebird driver when its ready.

Guillermo

"Thomas Miller" <tmiller@...> wrote in message
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> This was a known bug in the driver. It was fixed but not included in
> the UP2 by accident.
> Find the driver on the web site. Better yet, sign up for the FB
> dbExpress driver that is in
> beta. So far it works fine, but we won't really put it through its
> paces until early next week.
>
> Guillermo Najar-Arreola wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >I'm using Firebird 1.0 with Delphi 6 UP2; my problem relates with BCD

data

> >and I don�t know if the problem resides on Delphi or Firebird, so I'm

sorry

> >if my post is not 100% Firebird related and If you can help me, I'd
> >appreciate very much.
> >
> >I have a table field defined as Numeric(18,0) in Firebird 1.0. The table

has

> >about 7800 records, and that field (called OID_VENDOR) started at 1, 2,

3

> >... ending with vaule 7,800.
> >On my D6 UP2 app, I have the SQLDataSet-Provider-ClientDataSet components
> >(dbExpress),
> >linked to VENDOR table. When the DataModule is created, I get an
> >EDataBaseError exception: "BCD Overflow" and the application can't go on.
> >OID_VENDOR is defined in the SQLDataSet and ClientDataSet as Persistent
> >ftFmtBCD field.
> >I created a test application with a DBGrid on a window to show the table,
> >using the same components as on my main application. The program ran ok,

but

> >on the OID_VENDOR field I saw that the first 9 records (with OID values

from

> >1 to 9) show "=" or "?" instead of the actual OID values 1..9. From 10 to
> >99, the values are show ok; from 100 to 999, it shows the first 2 digits

of

> >the number, but the 3rd is garbled with "=" or "?".
> >
> >What is happening ?
> >
> >Guillermo
> >
> >
> >
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