Martijn,

I didn't see your answer when I replied. Now I see you covered the
same topic, but earlier.

I was looking at the bottom of the yahoo message where it shows the
thread and many times the entire thread does not show. In this case
I did not see your post.

Rick

>
> Exactly the reason why I was asking for its purpose :-)
>
> Read the documents at the links I send as a response.
>
> RDB$DB_KEY is valid for the current transaction only.
>
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