>
> Weeeell, not exactly. Don't bank the ranch on it. Yes, it's unique. But

> it's not a persistent value. What it is, is a calculated absolute

physical

> position of the current version of a row that has been committed in the
> past, i.e. newly inserted rows don't have rdb$db_keys. It should always

be

> regarded as transient, i.e. valid only within the transaction that is
> looking at it. In fact, the dbkeys on rows retrieved from joins and views

> are seriously complex and quite unpredictable, programmatically speaking.

I know all of that, I just need an answer to my original question.

How to format a rdb$db_key value within a literal string.

Thanks
Bupp