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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000>Hi all,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial>Our company has just recently ported from Delphi 7
to Delphi 2007. When we try to insert a blob into a firebird table using DBX4
(dbexpress) we were getting the following message "Incorrect values within
SQLDA structure". Their are plenty of references to this problem on the internet
and it turns out that DBX4 doesn't support/work with firebird anymore. This
problem has got the second highest votes on the codegear bug/feature
request page (<A
href="http://qc.codegear.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=41034">http://qc.codegear.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=41034</A>) and
comments about this problem go back to 2007 and yet I still cant find any
references to this problem being fixed.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial>I have fixed this problem by downloading a third
party dbexpress driver from <A
href="http://www.upscene.com/">http://www.upscene.com/</A> (go to downloads
and down the bottom there's a trial version for InterXpress for firebird, the
readme forgets to include the directory for the "dbxdrivers.ini" file for 2007
which is <SPAN lang=EN-US
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size=3>C:\Documents and Settings\All Users.WINDOWS\Documents\RAD
Studio\dbExpress).</FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial>The above works perfectly but I don't feel we
should have to pay for this option and were wondering if anyone else has found
any other solutions or heard any news about whether codegear are actually
planning on supporting this, sounds like there's a lot of people screaming about
this.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial>I also found a free driver at </FONT><A
href="http://www.tbosystems.bluehosting.com.br/dbx4/indexen.php"><FONT
face=Arial>http://www.tbosystems.bluehosting.com.br/dbx4/indexen.php</FONT></A><FONT
face=Arial>, it seems to go well apart from the fact that it crashes 10-30
seconds after executing all the sql statements. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000>Regards</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#000000>Richard Bullin</FONT></FONT><FONT
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000>B.E.(Hons) - Mechatronics</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000>Lowman Consulting Ltd</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Ph +64 9 535
8647</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Cell +64 21 053
6127</FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV>
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