Alan,
It is an exception seen from the Delphi IDE but originating externally - hence 'external exception' :)
I'm not sure if the source is OS, db or ODBC.
Thanks, Simon

----- Original Message -----
From: Alan McDonald
To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 12:33 AM
Subject: RE: [firebird-support] [firebird support] External exception E06D7363 ctd.


so is this exception being raised by Firebird? or Delphi? or ODBC?
it doesn't look like an ISC exception (firebird)
Alan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon [mailto:simon.bill@...]
> Sent: Friday, 11 July 2003 11:03 PM
> To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [firebird-support] [firebird support] External exception
> E06D7363 ctd.
>
>
> Thanks for the response - please see my comments next to your q's.
>
> I have tried using Firebird 1 and 1.003 with the same results.
>
> > I think you need to explain more with special reference to:
>
> > 1. 2 datasets Vs all queries
>
> The datasets are created from TQuery components in Delphi. I do
> not use TIBQuery as my app attempts to treat all databases equally.
> Each TQuery has an associated TDataSource and a TUpdateSQL
> component and is linked to a TDatabase. The TDataSources are
> needed for data aware controls such as grids and lookup combos.
> The TQueries fetch data based on select statements and the
> TUpdateSQLs handle updates, inserts and deletions.
>
> > 2. TDatabase via ODBC - how do you make this happen? Is this
> TDatabase of
> > IBX components? in Delphi? in C++Builder?
>
> TDatabase in Delphi - its AliasName is set to an ODBC DSN so that
> it connects through ODBC.
>
> > 3. What ODBC driver?
>
> It uses the IBPhoenix ODBC Driver.
>
> > 4. TDatabase does not need ODBC - so ?????
>
> My app uses MSSQL and Firebird, I do not want to use completely
> different connection methods for each if possible. The MSSQL
> database can be local or remote as could the Firebird database.
>
> Apologies if my original post was too broad - I am new to this newsgroup.
>
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