Terry,

> I am running a Delphi7 application which is live.
> If I rename a field in Firebird using Flamerobbin how do I refresh the
> IB_Grid so that the renamed field changes in the Delphi application.
>
> Assuming I can do this I would assume that I run a Script with something
> like ALTER TABLE TITLE ALTER AGE7 TO AGE8;

The dataset would need to be unprepared and prepared again to pick up on the
change to the underlying table. You would need to somehow notify your
application to do that. Perhaps you could set an event alerter to accompany
your metadata change.

Jason LeRoy Wharton
www.ibobjects.com