Vahan Yoghoudjian wrote:

> I received a Firebird database from a client and tried to open it both
> in IBExpert and Database workbench, in both cases I got the message
> "Connection authorization failure. D:\myDatabse.fdb is not a valid database"

One thing to try is gstat -h. Gstat reads the database header directly
- without going through the engine - and will report on what it finds.
The error you're seeing comes from the engine and is generated when it
can't figure out the header.


Regards,


Ann