dbexpress

I need to create a Firebird Database programmatically using DBExpress. I have done this for SQL server, by first connecting to Master, then passing in the script for Create to a query, but with Firebird I have a little chicken and egg problem. I got a good tip from a collegue that created some code for the Freepascal project. It doesn't use DB express, but according to him it is the only way to create a database with code. This code is based on the InterBase manual, and uses a call from the gdslib / fbclient dll: procedure TIBConnection.CreateDB; var ASQLDatabaseHandle, ASQLTransactionHandle :

Currently, our database uses Win1252 as the only character encoding. We will have to support Unicode in the database tables soon, which means we have to perform this migration for four databases and around 80 Delphi applications which run in-house in a 24/7 environment. Are there recommendations for database migrations to UTF-8 (or UNICODE_FSS) for Delphi applications? Some questions listed below. Many thanks in advance for your answers! are there tools which help with the migration of the existing databases (sizes between 250 MB and 2 GB, no Blob fields), by dumping the data, recreating the