Subject Re: [firebird-support] Re: ISQL & trigger -- this worked at last !!!
Author Helen Borrie
At 02:08 PM 4/10/2004 +0000, you wrote:

>Thanks everyone for the help !!
>If I correctly undestood, I will could insert multiline statament
>trought a JDBC connection without having to work with set term
>statements at all.
>Am I right ?

No.

A statement class encapsulates a single SQL statement.

A script (which I believe is not implemented in the JDBC driver) is a file
of multiple statements. You run scripts in isql. (Some other object
interfaces, such as IBObjects, for Delphi and Kylix, do have classes that
encapsulate a script.) Some tools support running scripts, but not the
Mitec Query Tool.

A CREATE TRIGGER or CREATE PROCEDURE statement is not a "multi-line
statement". It is a single DDL statement that encloses at least three PSQL
( = "procedure SQL") statements.

PSQL statements (currently) can only occur in a procedure or trigger
definition. PSQL statements - except BEGIN and END - must always be
terminated by a semicolon.

Therefore, if you define a trigger in a script, you must set the terminator
for all DDL statements (including the statement in which you are defining
the trigger or procedure) to be something that is NOT a semicolon.

READ THE LANGUAGE REFERENCE MANUAL.

./heLen