--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "MichaelS"
<pitterpattern@y...> wrote:

> I'm quite unused to firebird's apparent use of uppercase letters for
> field names etc. Is this an acutal requirement, or is it optional?

It is already optional.

Try it in iSQL.


CREATE TABLE TABLEA
(
FIELD1 INTEGER
);

COMMIT;

select count(field1)
from tablea;

should work.