> I think that's the problem: "the dialect of the db is 3". You must connect

to it using dialect 3 also.

> Check the property "SQL Dialect" in you TIB_Connection.

That won't be the problem because as a part of getting a connection IBO asks
the database to tell it what it is and this overrides what that is set to.
The only time you need to actually set it to something is if you are calling
CreateDatabase so that it knows what dialect to create it as.

HTH,
Jason Wharton
CPS - Mesa AZ
http://www.ibobjects.com