Roman Rokytskyy escreveu:

>>> And, if I understand correctly, the "main" technical issue is that main
>>> database file must be updated in the system tables area (OAT, OIT,
>>> allocate pages, etc).
>>>
>> Such people may be happy, because if it's not already possible it's very
>> easy to do this with a NBAK locked database now.
>>
>
> Don't you need to update main database file to put a "label" that
> database is in "nbak"-like mode? I guess some more functionality is
> needed...

Yes, but the database may be burned to CD already locked. The
application will need to be installed on a fixed path.

What I don't know is if the engine will open the file on the CD
(read-only) and the delta in read-write mode.

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