Re: [Firebird-devel] Connecting to a server without connecting to a DB?

[Martijn T. <m.t...@up...>]

Hi Eric,

> Is there a programmatic way to connect to a Firebird server and not to a
> specific DB?  What I really want to do is connect to the server, see if
> the DB I want is there, and create it if not.  This is easy in MySQL,
> but I can't figure a clean way to do it with Firebird.  I can obviously
> attempt to connect to the server:DB, and, if that fails, attempt to
> create the DB with isc_dsql_execute_immediate.  But if that second
> action fails, I can't tell exactly at what stage the error is happening.
> The IB OpGuide.pdf talks about how you can do this with the GUI
> IBConsole app, but I haven't seen any way to do it programmatically.
>
> I need to do this on both Windows and Mac OS X (which I believe is a
> Classic server only).  That may limit my options.

If you're connected to the server, what is it that you want to do?

Or even without connecting to the server -- what do you want to
do?

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
Database Workbench - developer tool for InterBase, Firebird, MySQL & MS SQL
Server.
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