At 11:40 AM 29/04/2003 +0200, you wrote:

>Is there a way of making a transaction read - only?

Yes. At the API level, it's set by a constant (isc_tpb_read) that you can
pass as a field in the optional transaction parameter buffer array argument
to the API function isc_start_transaction(). If you are using a driver
interface such as JDBC, ODBC, Delphi, etc., you can look for a property or
method that implements it, e.g. in IB Objects, the TIB_Transaction class
has a Boolean ReadOnly property...

heLen