I'm trying to build a script-executor to simplify DB maintenance. The
first thing that needs to be done is to bootstrap the database and set
up a table to record which scripts have already been run against it, so
it will detect if the table exists, and if not, try to run this:

<pre>
CREATE SEQUENCE GEN_DB_HISTORY_ID;

ALTER SEQUENCE GEN_DB_HISTORY_ID RESTART WITH 0;

CREATE TABLE DB_HISTORY (
ID INTEGER NOT NULL,
SCRIPT_TIME TIMESTAMP NOT NULL,
SCRIPT_NAME VARCHAR(255) CHARACTER SET UTF8 NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (ID)
);

SET TERM ^ ;
CREATE TRIGGER DB_HISTORY_BI FOR DB_HISTORY
ACTIVE BEFORE INSERT POSITION 0
AS
BEGIN
IF (NEW.ID IS NULL) THEN
NEW.ID = GEN_ID(GEN_DB_HISTORY_ID,1);
END^
SET TERM ; ^
</pre>


If I try to run the whole thing in a TIBQuery, I get an error on the
second command. Apparently it doesn't like multiple commands in one
Execute call.

So I try to run the four commands one at a time, and the first three
run, but on the fourth one, it gives an error message:

ISC ERROR CODE:335544569

ISC ERROR MESSAGE:

Dynamic SQL Error

SQL error code = -104

Token unknown - line 1, column 5

TERM

So apparently it doesn't like SET TERM.

I can run this script as one big script from SQL management tools. So
what am I missing? Why doesn't it work from a TIBQuery? What do I have
to do to be able to run a complex script in IBObjects?



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