Hello Hugo,

> Is there a way to determine which version of Firebird is running before connection to a Database?

From within your application, you can connect to the Services Manager and then call isc_service_query(), specifying isc_info_svc_server_version in the request buffer. This is documented in the IB6 API Guide.

Many clients (e.g. FlameRobin) can also give you this information without having to connect to a database first.

Or, from the OS command prompt:

> fbsvcmgr [hostname:]service_mgr -user <username> -password <password> -info_server_version

This requires Firebird 2.1 or higher on the client machine.


Hope this helps,
Paul Vinkenoog