I highly recommend you migrate your IB 4 database to Firebird. IB 4 is
notorious for crashing when doing metadata updates while other users are
active in a database.

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

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andreas Prucha" <prucha@...>
To: <iBObjects@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 9:19 AM
Subject: [IBO] IBO with IB 4.x in a DLL


>
> Hi,
>
> Does IBO work with Interbase 4.x in a DLL? I have an old application
> which uses the BDE and IB 4. Now I need to write a simple DLL which
> updates table-structures and checks other things. This has to happen
> in a dll. Unfortunately, when I do this with the BDE-DB-Components in
> a DLL it /sometimes/ crashes the /server/. I have no idea why. For
> example I get a INET-error 10038, a INET/slect_wait-error and a
> SRVR_multi_thread-error. Well and the server crashes with an GPF. Does
> it make sense to try it with IBO? What I do now is just to perform
> selects on a few RDB$-Tables and do ALTER TABLE, CREATE TRIGGER and
> similar stuff with TQuery.ExecSQL.
>
>
> --
> Best Regards - Mit freundlichen Gruessen,
>
> Andreas Prucha
> helicon software development
>