At 05:25 PM 20-04-01 +0000, you wrote:

> >> Possibly you have a transaction with LockWait true and your
>isolation to tiConsistency? <<
>
>LockWait and isolation? In Delphi 5.0 there is no LockWait property
>or method and the TIBTransaction component has no isolation
>property.

What you mean is, in InterBaseXpress there is no LockWait property and no Isolation property. Delphi itself doesn't "know" about such characteristics - it relies on DBMS-specific implementations for data access rules, either through a BDE driver or through a custom connectivity implementation like IBX or IBO.

>Nor was there any mention of these things when I set up my
>Interbase 6.0 database.

Not sure what "mention" you expected. If you are going to use InterBase, you had better get to grips with transactions and the issues of isolation and concurrency...

>Jason, you are speaking a language that is
>completely foreign to me.

You have a learning curve, then. :))

>My basic problem is this:

See an opinion about this is my response to your later posting and in the responses of others...

>I fear that I have somehow set up Interbase (or Delphi properties) in
>a manner that only supports a single user or a single work station.
>I did choose "local database" as opposed to "remote database" when I
>set up my Interbase database. Is this somehow related to the problem
>perhaps?

Very likely. We could get a better understanding if you were to describe how you do have it set up.

Cheers,
Helen

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