At 11:00 a.m. 13/01/2014, Bjorkman wrote:

>Thanks for quick response and to do a backup to send over if needed.
>
>I have downloaded flamerobin and installed it but I can't open my embedded firebird DB...

..which you don't have yet, right?

>So far I have copied all files for my embedded db into my development directory and renamed the dll to FBCLIENT.DLL
>In flamerobin I rightclick on localhost

No; localhost provides a pseudo-network connection for client/server. Embedded needs the path to the database with NO host.

>and select Create New Database
>For teh path I have tried to
>- put the path to my dev-dir; or
>- browse there and select teh FBCLIENT.DLL file ( I don't have a FDB-file yet)

Dunno quite what you mean here ('browse there"). Put FR and the embed lib in the same directory. FR will then load fbembed.dll and connect to the embedded server.

>Authentication - Use trusted user authentication

Embedded on Windows does no authentication.

If you are *creating* a database you need the full path to the FILE, i.e., include the name of the database file in the connection path. So, suppose you want to name the database file mydatabase.fdb, you want:

D:\dev-dir\mydatabase.fdb

where D: MUST BE a physical disk designator

>Charset - tried a couple including none

NONE is not really useful unless your data will always be 100% 7-bit ascii.

>I Click create and always get a message:

Place the Flamerobin executable in the same directory as your renamed fbembed.dll.



Helen Borrie, Support Consultant, IBPhoenix (Pacific)
Author of "The Firebird Book" and "The Firebird Book Second Edition"
http://www.firebird-books.net
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