There are no known issues, but that doesn't mean you aren't the first to
find one.
There are several bugs in the IB driver. As far as I know there are no bugs
in the FB driver. When one is found, it is typically fixed in very
short order
(a couple of weeks). It has been more then a year since we have seen a
bug fix for the IB driver.

Ben Ziegler wrote:

>Thomas,
>
>Thanks for the reply. Are there known issues with using DB Express
>and Firebird? I thought that with the gds32.dll translation DLL it
>should work OK.
>
>If the upscene driver will do the trick though it will be well worth
>it.
>
>-Ben
>
>
>--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Thomas Miller <tmiller@b...>
>wrote:
>
>
>>You should get a FB dbExpress driver from http://www.upscene.com
>>
>>bziegler_yh wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>I just tried to convert my Delphi ISAPI application (using DB
>>>Express) to use Firebird instead of Interbase. It worked fine
>>>
>>>
>with
>
>
>>>Interbase - it was able to use multiple threads while inside IIS,
>>>etc. But when I switched over to Firebird, it stalls out on the
>>>
>>>
>2nd
>
>
>>>or 3rd connection, making me think there might be a threading
>>>
>>>
>issue
>
>
>>>with fbclient.dll?
>>>
>>>To convert the app from Interbase to Firebird, I edited the SQL
>>>Connection property to point to the Firebird server and filename.
>>>
>>>
>I
>
>
>>>also set the client library to "fb-gds32.dll". I copied the
>>>
>>>
>Firebird
>
>
>>>gds32.dll into system32\fb-gds32.dll, and copied fbclient.dll into
>>>the system32 directory. Note I did this because some of my other
>>>ISAPI apps still use Interbase (on a different server than the
>>>Firebird server). Would there be any conflicts with that?
>>>
>>>Am I doing something wrong? Does Firebird not work with DB
>>>
>>>
>Express?
>
>
>>>Any known issues here?
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance,
>>>-Ben
>>>
>>>
>>>Some other notes: I am properly openning a new connection to the
>>>database in each ISAPI thread that gets created.
>>>
>>>
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>>Thomas Miller
>>Delphi Client/Server Certified Developer
>>BSS Accounting & Distribution Software
>>BSS Enterprise Accounting FrameWork
>>
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>>http://sourceforge.net/projects/dbexpressplus
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