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From: "Dimitry Sibiryakov" <SD@...>
>
> On 10 Sep 2004 at 17:08, Jerome Bouvattier wrote:
>
> >> Yes. It can even connect to old IBs, but you may get "feature not
> >> supported" error on some operations.
> >And is there any risk in doing so ? Can I corrupt the ODS10 database ?
>
> Client library does not interact with DB file directly, so it must
> be quite safe, but I wouldn't take a bet.
>
> >Ideally I'd like to do the following :
> >
> >- Setup installs fb embedded and remove anything related to IB6
> >- Setup installs new version of the app
> >- App forces a backup and restore of the db at first start.
>
> No!! This is indeed a way to get into troubles. Don't ever try to
> open DB file by different server. And FB is quite "different server"
> for IB.

I thought you wrote "It can even connect to old IB dbs" instead of "It can
connect to old IBs". My mistake.

Thanks a lot for the clarification. I'll go the safe route.

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Jerome