--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Tim Ledgerwood <tim@s...>
wrote:

> :-) I don't do it myself. I wrote it into the program that our

clients are

> using.
>
> The only place where the fields need to be CHAR is in the import

table.

>
> In other words, you have the external file, an import table, and

the table

> that your clients are using.
>
> The program moves the external file data into the import table. In

the

> import table, all fields are CHAR
>
> Then the data is moved to the production table, casting the values

in the

> correct data types as you go.
>
> It is possible to do this so that there is no input from the user

at all.

> (I know, that's how my program works)

It is possible to do it remotely, i.e.: I have the external files on
a local machine (and I do inserts from this computer) and I know IP
address of the Firebird server and database name?