> Alan McDonald wrote:
> >>If i compare a database using ibexpert or clever components dbcomparer,
> >>with a master sql schema, it shows they are identical.
> >>
> >>If i do a backup and restore and then compare them i get a ton of the
> >>following
> >
> >
> > you're not just doing a schema compare - otherwqise you would
> not get dml
> > statements in the resultant script.
> > You are doing a table data compare as well.
> > Why you are getting these differences in the data I'm not sure
> but I would
> > suspect that you have changed or FIBPLus has made some system
> table changes
> > which do not live thru a backup/restore.
> > These are all NULL Flag ssettings so somewhere along the line
> you have made
> > some changes to teh null flag which have been carried out
> directly on the
> > system tables and not done correctly. Instated of issuing a DDL
> statement.
> > I wonder waht version of admin tool you are using? Do you use
> IBExpert (e.g.
> > an old personal version with perhaps a bug in the not null flag
> setting?)?.
> > Alan
> >
> >
>
> I'm using IBExpert 2005.9.25. As far as I know i'm not comparing any
> data. I see no option for that in IBExpert.
>

ok, well there use to be a little bug in IBE where if you clicked on the not
null checkbox under certain circumstances, the system tables were not fully
(correctly) set. I thought it was fixed a long time ago. Could this DB have
been around a long time?
Alan