At 11:14 AM 2/02/2008, you wrote:

>Does it means that i have to install Interbase if i want to test the
>D2007 db demo projects?
>--------------------------------

If it were me, and my life depended on being able to use those databases with Firebird 2, I'd want to:

1) verify that the problem really *is* due to Codegear having (finally) upgraded those databases to *their* ODS 11 (which is incompatible with Firebird's). I don't think your EMS database tool is the perfect one for this as it appears to be an out-of-date version you are using.

2) if so, get a metadata extract of each of the affected databases and then

3) create "empty" databases using those scripts in isql under Firebird 2 and then

4) pump the data into the empty databases using your preferred database tool

Steps 1 and 2 and possibly 4 would require a running IB 7.x server - the "developer" version that comes with RS 2007 should be good enough.

Alternatively, if you still have the CDs for an older Delphi version, you could pick up the databases off them. The "unknown" in all that is whether, in their eventual efforts to upgrade those demo databases, Codegear also altered the metadata and/or upgraded the demo apps to use features available only in IB 7+.....

You might want to wait a few days, in case someone reading this list after the weekend has already converted the databases to a Firebird-compatible ODS and offers to give you copies. *We* can't offer to do it and make the databases available, for copyright reasons.

./heLen