Ann,

>>With Firebird embedded
>>you are actually housing the server in your executable which thus
>>acquires direct access to the data. This means that the C/S protocol
>>no longer shields you from screwing up badly the database if, f. ex.
>>your application crashes.
>>

A> Actually that shouldn't be a problem as long as you have forced writes
A> turned on (or run a civilized operating system). You can crash the
A> application very easily by writing on data created by the Firebird DLL,
A> but that won't corrupt the database. You could, I suppose, get very
A> unlucky and write over a dirty page in the cache which will turn up
A> later as corruption.

"unlucky" is my second name actually.
Ciao
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