On 25 Apr 2005 at 20:33, Mike Dewhirst wrote:

>/opt/firebird/bin/isql /srv/fdb/scripts/create_fdb.sql

"-i" must be before script name.

>CREATE DATABASE '/srv/fdb/xyz/prd.fdb'
> USER 'xyz' PASSWORD '999ans';
>
>QUIT;

QUIT is not needed here. Are you aware that QUIT rollback isql's
DML transaction?

>This fellow returns -922 which is bad_db_format

Right. Because create_fdb.sql is not database at all.
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SY, Dimitry Sibiryakov.