17 June 2000
I have had an OLE-DB driver for InterBase 6.x working for a while now. I had hoped to add more capabilities for review before sending it out but I have been otherwise occupied. Rather than keep holding it back, I figured it would be worthwhile to show you what there is, so we all at least have somewhere to start.

HOW TO GET INVOLVED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT
Please follow these instructions in order to participate in the actual development of this driver:

• Go to the OPTK SITE and download the OLE DB Provider Development Toolkit

• Install it on your machine

• Go to the ..\IBO\AddOn folder where your IBO source is, get the file OPTk_IBO.zip and extract it to a folder of your choice.
  (I added a ..\IBO\ sub-folder to the one that the OPTk files are in).

• Open Delphi and open the IBO.dpr project.

• On the Delphi menu, select Run|Register ActiveX Server.
  It should give you the message that the IBO.dll has been registered.

• Open the Client.dpr and run it.

• Put in your database path with a comma and a table name.
  Don't use a really large table. It will do a fetch all.

• Your username and password need to be SYSDBA and masterkey.
  Alternatively, set the environment variables ISC_USER and ISC_PASSWORD.

• Click the FetchAll button and you will see the data.
My first order of enhancement is to get it to process a SELECT statement. That will be easy...

It's a start! Comments and feedback are appreciated. Thanks,
Jason Wharton
CPS - Mesa AZ

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