At 05:30 PM 27/08/2004 +0000, you wrote:

>1. Will IB Datapump allow transfer of data from an Access database
>to Firebird?

Not directly: it's native-to-native. But, if you can output the Access
data as fixed-length text records, you can hitch it to an external
table. Then you can use the datapump.

>2. If so, can field values be manipulated in the transfer? Example,
>can Access fields that contain words such as "TRUE" or "FALSE" be
>mapped to smallint 1 or 0 before inserting into the Firebird field?

Yes. You do very fine-grained source-to-dest mapping.

Other alternatives:

If you can export the Access tables in .CSV format, another alternative is
to use TIB_Import to acquire the .CSV data as a raw native table and use
that as the source for TIB_Datapump. It's not useful if you have blob
data, though.

Alternatively, use Delphi's BDE datapump to create your raw table as an
InterBase table; then use that table as the source.

Helen