> Umm....dialect has rather a lot to do with the SQL you can use. Both
> dialect 1 and dialect 3 are "standard" (more or less) but in
> dialect 1 you
> are limited to InterBase 5's SQL language set (less, actually). Alan, if
> you haven't been using d1 databases, you'll be quite astonished
> by what you
> can't do in d1. :-> If you write apps that use language features that
> only d3 has, and try to run them against a d1 database, you will get some
> unpleasant surprises.
>
> /heLen

I use both and I've never struck a situation where an SQL command works in
one and not the other - maybe I'm boring
Alan