--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@...>
wrote:

>
> At 01:54 AM 14/01/2007, you wrote:
> >I'm using windows xp,visual studio 2005, embeded version 1.5.3 and
> >receive the following error when trying to create a new database

file

> >using overwrite set to TRUE to overwrite a previously created

database

> >file.
> >
> >here is my code:
> >
> >FbConnection.CreateDatabase(DBConnectionBuilder.ConnectionString,

True)

> >
> >
> >This is the error message:
> >
> >I/O error for CreateFile(create) "<filename>"
> >Error while trying to create file
> >
> >
> >It creates a new database file without any problems if the file

doesnt

> >exist.
> >
> >any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> This sounds like exactly the correct behaviour. By design, the
> underlying -r[eplace_database] switch is disallowed if the
> authenticated user is not the owner of the database or the SYSDBA
> user. Since the embedded server connects its embedded client

without

> authentication, the "user" is no user at all at the point where

this

> client makes its DROP DATABASE request and, fortunately, it fails.
>
> As a matter of pure curiosity, have you considered the implications
> of trying to design an embedded application that has the capability
> to disembowel itself?
>
> ./heLen
>

thanks for replying. point well taken.