> At November 5, 2003, 19:05, Kevin Herrmann wrote:
>
> > Thomas -- thanks very much for the procedure and the vote of confidence. I
> > assume you suffered no ill effects from the conversion?
>
> > The ONE problem we may have is that we use 'first' as a column name. So,
> > unless, I'm missing something, we can't just replace the database without
> > patching software to use something other than 'first'. Is that correct?
>
> The keyword FIRST is no longer a reserved word in Firebird 1.5. This
> change was made because of circumstances like yours.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Daniel Rail

Daniel,

Thanks -- I saw it in latest release notes and was happy to see it. Guess I'm
being a bit conservative wanting to go with 1.0.3 due to FB 1.5 not being
released and in production for awhile.

However, I'll ask my original question with regards to FB 1.5 now:

We have:
* commercial, medical application running at more than 20 sites
* D5 / BDE 5.1.1
* Interbase 6.0.1

I want to uninstall Interbase and Install -->Firebird 1.5<-- on the
server and update to the Firebird 1.5 GDS32.dll and FBCLIENT.DLL on the client
machines.

Will this work within reason? My definition of reasonable is that if
the BDE/Interbase connection had problems before, having the same
problems in Firebird are reasonable. If the this introduces other
problems, than I'll need to consider what those may be.

Of course I intend to
Backup in Interbase
Restore in Firebird
Maintain dialect 1
update gds32.dll
anything else?

Thanks

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Kevin Herrmann