Hi Salvatore,

> it was so obvious :-) I've used the wrong property. But now I cannot
> blank the DatabaseName property, an error pops out telling me that an
> empty value is not valid. Are there any con's leaving the alias name
> in both DatabaseName and Path?

No.

Use a readable value for DatabaseName you are
comfortable with. That value gets listed in
the drop-down box, whenever you access the
IB_Connection property of your data access
components like TIB_Query, TIB_DSQL, ...


Best Regards,
Thomas Steinmaurer
LogManager Serie - Logging/Auditing Suites supporting
InterBase, Firebird, Advantage Database and MS SQL Server
Upscene Productions
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