Hello Lane,

>I've got a V2.5 DB, and using DB Workbench.

Good. ;)

>Based on a hint from the Firebird Book, I tried the following query, hoping
>to get a Session_ID:
>'select rdb$get_context('system', 'session_id') from rdb$database;'
>
>I got back a "Dynamic SQL error -804 Function unknown RDB$GET_CONTEXT"
>message. What am I doing wrong?

Well, I'm getting:
Invalid namespace name system passed to RDB$GET_CONTEXT

But at least the function works.


In Database Workbench, if you expand the "UDFs" node after establishing a
database connection, is RDB$GET_CONTEXT listed?


With regards,

Martijn Tonies
Upscene Productions
http://www.upscene.com

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