At 01:13 AM 22/02/2005 -0700, you wrote:

>What is the reference to rdb$database? Should I use this verbatim, exactly
>as you have stated it, or replace this with another value from my database?

Use rdb$database - it's the system table that holds the info about the
database and it always has exactly one record. That's why we use it when
we want to get a singleton result set consisting entirely of derived columns.

./heLen