i cant belive the result was under my nose all the time and i didnt see it! :doh: thank you sebastian... ill never forget your support! if u got curious ... the thing i wanted is (you type in google fetch parent child tables interbase) you will get the title article (fetch parent child... uppercased u enter it and you will find what i wanted exactly..) thank you so much. hop this works.becos it says oracle ... thank you again :)

THANK GOD WE ARE UNDERSTANDING EACH OTHER.. ;) look the interbase (ibexpert) doesnt use sys.anything there must be some sort of other kywords for such database... this is my main issue. i have allready found sys.datatable_name...and stuff but the sys is not understood by ibexpert.. :( i tried to google it ... i found an answer in experts exchange.com but in order to view the answer i had to pay! and i dont have any credit cards on me... to be honest no matter if u could help me or not i am so thankful for your support! so thankful for taking time one me like this.

the SELECT * from table... would display the fields in that table.. this is not what i need. i need the table names only. not the fields in them.

to be honest i dont know what i need ... its logical to use joins if i want the children of tables to appear but to be honest its an alien query to me... i feel so weak in queries :sigh: but ofcourse i cant join all the tables there r so many! there must be a way to cite them all and display them in such way or else my boss wouldnt have told me to do so...

mm.. lets see how to express this, i have a parent table called (types) in it i have many children and sub children tables. i need to display them in a query where in the 1st column the table types should appear then in the second column the children of that table should appear and in the 3rd column the children of the children tables should appears. ex: types(1st column) --------sales_unp(2nd column) --------sales ------------stock_flow(3rd column) ------------invoices_unp ------------invoices --------unordered_items_hdr(2nd column) ------------unordered_items(3rd column) ...

well dear sebastian i have to display the table names in my ibexpert this is my first time trying to fetch table names and not fields using standard queries. i have to display in the 1st column the parent tables names and next to them in the second columns the children and the same for the subchildren for each parent..

hello there, can anyone plz tel me how to write a query to fetch all names of parents, children and subchildren in interbase? ex: School class1 21students class2 24students school2 class1 30students... plz i have it as a task at work plz help me :sigh: thank you.