Thanks for suggestions Karol. I am using Win 10 (64) and FB3 (32). All DLLs are 32 bit, assessed by looking in the DLL files. Russell
,___ I know that this is not so helpfull - byt you do not need to use external functions to extract year or others it exists in firebird itself EXTRACT(YEAR FROM DATE_FIELD) Look into README.builtin_functions.txt To fix problems - look at Dmitry answer regards, Karol Bieniaszewski
