Python script to check FDB installation

checkfdb.py (text/plain), 776 bytes, created by Vincent Hardy on 2015-01-23 19:34:28 UTC

#!/usr/bin/env python3
#
# [e-mail]
#
# This script checks the proper working of the FDB library
#
# employee.fdb is a demo database supplied with each binary release of Firebird
# (both windows and linux).
# 
# Default Windows path :
#   C:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_2_5\examples\empbuild\EMPLOYEE.FDB 
#
# Default linux path :
#   /opt/firebird/examples/empbuild/employee.fdb

import fdb

con = fdb.connect(
	dsn='/var/firebird/employee.fdb',
	user='SYSDBA', password='masterkey'
	)

cur = con.cursor()
cur.execute("Select \
	FIRST_NAME,LAST_NAME,JOB_CODE \
	from EMPLOYEE \
	Where HIRE_DATE<'01-01-1991'")

for row in cur:
# python 3
	print ('{} {} - {}'.format(row[0], row[1], row[2]))
	
# python 2
#	print '%s %s - %s' % (row[0], row[1], row[2])