Hi,

> Let me first say that I'm a complete newbie to all of this stuff and
> am really only looking to do one thing. I've searched a good bit
> and this seemed like the only appropriate place to ask (even though
> almost all of the questions here seem WAY more advanced than where I
> am!)
>
> Basically, I've got some manufacturing software that uses Firebird
> 1.5. I know a decent amount about the data that is in my database
> but sometimes I run into problems where I would like to see the SQL
> statements that the software is using to pull data. Again, pardon
> all of my terminology here.
>
> I've downloaded and toyed around with a number of "trial-period"
> software that have features such as SQL Monitoring but they all seem
> to only monitor statements from within their own program. I am
> looking for something that can detect queries (and possibly log
> them) coming from this manufacturing software to pull data from my
> database.

Firebird doesn't (yet) provide a way to detect incoming statements.

There's a third party tool that can do that for you, though:
http://www.hk-software.net/h-k.de/en/products/IBMonitor

> So, I guess my questions are: Is this even a possibility? If so,
> can you recommend any software to accomplish this?

Hope this helps.

Martijn Tonies
Database Workbench - development tool for Firebird and more!
Upscene Productions
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