> --- 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

It set on the firebird server, not windows. Have a poke around on the
database settings. It's set on a per database basis.
Alan