Helen,

Thanks a lot for your answer. I'll follow your advice. Ah... and thanks
about the correction (unnavailable X unavailable) too (and i was a
little confuse about it yesterday; my first language, in fact, is
portuguese)...

Saulo Oliveira Santos
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Systems Construction
Medisoft Ltda.
Curitiba - PR - Brazil

Helen Borrie wrote:

>At 02:14 PM 4/02/2004 -0300, you wrote:
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>>Good afternoon,
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>>Hi! I'm a Java/J2EE developer from Curitiba, Brazil and i'm facing a
>>problem with Firebird. In fact, i have never used it before, but i'm
>>trying to learn about it in the past two weeks. I have just installed
>>the Firebird 1.5 (RC6) in my computer (Windows XP Professional) and i'm
>>running Firebird as a service, but i'm trying to create a new database
>>and facing a constant error (SQL ERROR -904 unnavailable database). I
>>have read the instructions in 'Quick Start Guide' but i cannot do even
>>the simpler instruction about using GSEC or ISQL because they always
>>return to me same error: unnavailable database. I have searched on the
>>Language Reference PDF and in the others PDF files in the doc package
>>(60All.zip - ibphoenix.com) but i have not found anything that could be
>>really helpful to me. Does anyone know how i can solve this problem? I'm
>>losing a lot of time in it but the problem stills... i really don't know
>>what to do...
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>"Unavailable database" usually means that the client can't find the named
>database file in the place your connection string told it to look.
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>Initially, a connection has to find the security database
>(security.fdb). If GSEC is returning "unavailable database" then something
>is wrong with your installation - the server doesn't know the root
>directory and cannot find the security database. You probably just
>unzipped a "zip" file when you needed to use the ".exe" installer.
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>so......
>Shut down the server.
>Go into the command console and cd to Firebird's \bin directory.
>Run the batch file install_super.bat (or install_classic.bat if it is
>Classic that you installed).
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>Still, RC 6 is a very old beta (September 2003). Fb 1.5 is currently at RC
>8. You really should download the RC8 installer (in a few hours, when
>Sourceforge comes back on line) and start afresh.
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>/heLen
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>instreg install -z
>instsvc install -auto -superserver -g -z
>instsvc start
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