You are absolutely right. Sorry about that!

In the confusion of learning to access Firebird embedded engine via API,
I stumbled around. During experimentation with integer, short,
smallint, long, I accidentally changed the "dept" and "years" data
declaration from short to int and forgot about it.

Being a typical techie, I though I was using the API wrong somehow and
totally forgot about the C declaation.

Now I still need to address the problem with text and later on timestamnp.

jml