--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Alan McDonald" <alan@m...>
wrote:

> > Hi again.
> >
> > I posted a message earlier regarding the precision of Double
> > Precision (in dialect 1)? Well, I'm using dialect 1 because I'm
> > using BDE. Is there a way of using the BDE with dialect 3 (with
> > Firebird obviously)?
> >
> > Thanks again.
> >
> > Hugo
>
> Not without a lot of testing - not advised.
> The precision of Double Precision is the same anyway between

dialects

> Dialect 3 has date only fields instead of datetime fields
> Not a lot of other differences. Wha's wrong with using dialect 1

anyway? If

> you're stuck with BDE then you'd better use it. No diff in

performance.

> Alan

My only problem is the datatypes. I would much rather use INT64 than
Double Precision, because of the accuracy. That's why I want to use
dialect 3.