Subject Re: What happens if the power fails
Author spif1973
--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Alan McDonald" <alan@m...>
wrote:
> > > What kind of corruption would you expect, Set?
> >
> > I wouldn't expect any corruption, but can imagine at least disk
errors
> > if power fails at the wrong moment. But you're right, I know a
bit of
> > SQL and may answer some of those questions, but have no knowledge
of
> > running a server and should leave this for those of you having
that
> > knowledge.
> >
> > Set
>
> windows with forced writes set to off will (amybe not if you're
lucky)
> result in database corruption. but set it to on and their is little
chance
> for corruption. *nix, either way will have low chance of cooruption.
> Alan

I´ve just asked my colleagues and none of them know, where to set
the "forced writes" attribute in Windows (we are using XP-
Professional).
Can anyone tell me how to do it?

Martin