and you save the string in one part?
not servername and path separately?
Does IBX parse the string? Have you debugged the way IBX handles this
string?
Do the users disconnect properly from the db when this change is made?

Alan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: steve11r2003 [mailto:srice@...]
> Sent: Monday, 19 May 2003 12:56 AM
> To: ib-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [ib-support] Re: Connection string question
>
>
> (As a note to an earlier reply...we don't have spaces in the
> database name, I only did that so as to make the database name
> apparent. The actual connection string is like this:
> Server:f:\winapp\application.gdb )
>
> We prompt the user for the connection string. The application is
> designed so they could run different databases from the same
> application; however, they have to connect to the database they want
> to work with as they login into the application. We save the last
> connection string used in the registry so the user doesn't have to
> change it each time they login if they login into the same database
> all the time (this is very common, only a few users require more
> than one database). Both sites that reported this issue have only
> one database, thus use only one connection string.
>
> The situation we've had reported that I described in my original
> email has been reported by two separate sites with experienced
> support personnel from our company on site and witnessing the
> occurrence. I've told them exactly what I'm being told in these
> replies, that there is no way this can happen. I've not been able
> to reproduce it at our site. These support people are very good and
> understand the connection string issue as we have a number of
> applications that use Firebird and of course they all rely on a
> connection string.
>
> I suppose it will be the nature of this issue (not really a problem
> because they can connect with the connection string that we all
> believe doesn't work) that I can just tell them that there is no way
> this can occur because that is what everyone believes. They can
> tell me I don't know what I'm talking about because they've
> witnessed it themselves. So be it I suppose. I'll post any further
> information I can gather regarding issue.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
>
> --- In ib-support@yahoogroups.com, "Alan McDonald" <alan@m...> wrote:
> > >There is no way this is a local
> > > connection as some replies have suggested.
> >
> > There is also no way that this is a remote connection.
> > You say you use IBX components
> > How do the users change the DatabaseName property of the IBDatabase
> > component?
> >
> > Alan
>
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