Tanz Anthrox wrote:

> I need to extract metadata in client machines
>
> "isql -x mbsbirdy.fdb -u sysdba -p masterkey -o meta.sql"

Assuming that isql is located in your applications directory
sth. like:

isql -x c:\path_to_your_dat\mbsbirdy.fdb -u sysdba -p egal -o meta.sql

should work.

Of course, your application can't access the database while isql is
running and vice versa.

Frank

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