Subject Re: [IB-Conversions] Converting Paradox to IB 5
Author Helen Borrie
At 08:50 AM 14-05-02 +0000, you wrote:
>I'm trying to upsize a paradox database to interbase 5.
>Tables containing timestamp fields are not converted.
>When I delete the timestamp fields from these tables datapump does
>convert the tables. Is this normal behaviour of datapump?

If you are talking about the Delphi datapump, yes it is, because it doesn't
know about IB 6 dialect 3 Timestamp type. The equivalent type in IB 5 and
in IB 6 dialect 1 is DATE. Try to get it to convert Paradox timestamp to
InterBase 5 DATE type.

cheers,
Helen

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