Thanks for your three suggestions I will give them a try.
Dave

--- In IBObjects@y..., comesailing@b... wrote:
> Silly question.
> What is the best way (in a program using ib_connection) of finding
> whether a table exists and if so whether it is empty ?
> I do it by trying to read a record and if the table does not exist
or
> is empty then of course there is an error. But this is clumsy, I
> would rather do a test of each.
> regards Dave.