> At 01:43 PM 30/08/2006, you wrote:
>
> > I didn't realize the placment of the user and login was
> >so strict. I thought once I specifed my user and password,
> >I would be set to connect to any DB I owned.
>
> Aaah, such confusion! <g>
>
> isql is simply a client application that gives you an interface to
> pass SQL statements in one way or another. When connecting to a
> database (via isql or any other client application) you have to
> supply user name and password.
>
> With isql you can do this one of two ways, either:
>
> 1) by passing the username and password as switches when you invoke
> isql from the command line, e.g.
>
> isql -user sysdba -password masterkey
>
> or
> 2) as arguments of the SQL statements CONNECT or CREATE DATABASE, as
> you now have done, thanks to Alan's advice
>
> There is no command in SQL (or isql) like "user" or "password", as
> you initially tried to do.
>
> For 1), if you have the system variables isc_user and isc_password
> available in your user scope, you can omit the switches and isql will
> apply them itself.
>
> For 2), of course you have to comply with SQL syntax and use the
> actual SQL keywords USER and PASSWORD, and single-quote the strings.

there's no need to single quotes around username and password strings
Alan

>
> If you started isql with 1), you then don't need to supply the
> arguments to the CONNECT or CREATE DATABASE statements.
>
> ./heLen