Subject RE: [IBO] IB_Import and reserved words
Author Jason Wharton
Please just debug the problem in the sources since you have them.

Are you using the wrong case? Once double quoted identifies are case
sensitive.

Jason

> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBObjects@yahoogroups.com [mailto:IBObjects@yahoogroups.com]On
> Behalf Of ashwiz_za
> Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 6:59 AM
> To: IBObjects@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [IBO] IB_Import and reserved words
>
>
> Helen, hi there
>
> Thank you for help, much appreciated!!!
>
> I have tried that, but still no luck...
> (defining the field list in the FieldList property, no luck.
>
> I have traced though Ib_Import, where it builds up the SQL, even
> hard-coded the quotes ("default"), but where it crashes is
> where it calls
> DSql.Prepare;
>
> The sql is:
> insert into TableX (code,description,"default",country_id)
> values (:code,:description,:default,:country_id)
>
> -SQL error code -206, Column unknown, default, At line 1 column 28
>
> I have done similar import, with these same tables, but used
> IB_Query,
> and built up the sql myself in a similar manner. It worked ok?
> (I was connecting directly to Informix using bde, and then inserting
> to firebird. Is same destination database, just this time I am reading
> from txt files)
>
> Do you think there is a chance I can get IB_Import to work, or should
> I resort to manually doing it all like before?
>
> (Is it possible to Alias the column names?)
>
> Many thanx
> Kind regards
> ashley ;-)
>
> --- In IBObjects@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@t...> wrote:
> >
> > At 07:16 PM 9/12/2005 +0000, you wrote:
> > >Hi there
> > >
> > >I am using IB_Import, but am having trouble as of the
> > >columns names are reserved words.
> > >Now, normally I simply quote them and IB-Objects understands them
> > >fine, but with IB_Import doesn't seem to work?
> > >
> > >Eg: CODE VARCHAR(5) NOT NULL,
> > > DESCRIPTION VARCHAR(15),
> > > "DEFAULT" CHAR(1),
> > >
> > >I am including the column names in the first line of the
> > >text file to import, and
> > >have tried using quotes there, but still same problem...
> >
> > Double-quotes have a special (non Fb/IB) significance in text data
> > files. AFAIK, it should be enough to put quotes around the
> > offending field name in your FieldList property.
> >
> > If that still excepts, try removing the header line altogether and
> > defining your own list of (legal) field names in the FieldList
> > property. They can be Huey, Dewey and Louie or whatever you like,
> > as long as they are in the right order.
> >
> > That said, its impossible to tell from your problem description
> > whether you are getting trouble because of the source record
> > definition or your destination table definition.
> > You don't actually say what exception you are getting, either.
> >
> > If the latter - that the insert or update statement being
> > constructed by the component causes an exception - it could be one
> > of the following:
> >
> > 1) Your database is dialect 1. In that case, a quoted identifier
> > won't be legal.
> >
> > 2) The possibility that Delphi has an extra problem with a **column
> > name** of "DEFAULT" at some level of parsing, since this is also a
> > keyword in Delphi and Delphi doesn't have any special syntax for
> > making illegal keyword use legal.
> >
> > Helen
> >
>
>