> Hi all,
>
> I have been observing a discussion on another mailing list that
> raises some
> questions about IB/FB and the way it works.
>
> The person asking the question would like to do the following :
>
> He would like to install the DBMS software on several machines.
>
> Each DBMS engine looks at the same database (in IB/FB terms, the
> GDB file)
> file over the network.
>
> Is there any sense in doing this? Can one do it with IB/FB? Should one do
> this? (IMHO, NO, DEFINITELY NOT!)
>
> Regards
>
> Tim

Can't be done anyway. The server will only work on a local system drive -
not a mapped drive and the embedded server will not allow more than one
connection.

BTW - how'a that slow query?

Alan