Thanks woody, that was the problem. Took me a few minutes to work out
where the setting was, but now it works fine. Thanks, and thanks to
everyone for their suggestions.

Regards
Martin.

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Woody \(TMW\)" <woody.tmw@i.
..> wrote:

> > I have a small problem where i have two machines (one windows
> 98se[firebird
> > server] and windows 2000 sp3 [firebird client], this is just the

setup

> that
> > i have for testing). Basically my program is one both machines

running at

> > the same time, now when i change data on one machine, the changes

made do

> > not appear on the other machine until i exit out of my program and

restart

> > it again.
> >
> > my database connection string is "LAPTOP:D:\Dev\Test\Test.gdb" now

i

> > thought that by doing this any changes made on one machine will be

able to

> > be seen on another machine.
> >
> > can some one tell me what i may have done wrong or point me in a

direction

> > that will help me.
> >
> > my program is using the interbase components that come with delphi

7

> > professional.
>
> Set your transaction components to read-committed. They default to

snapshot

> mode which means you won't see changes made by other users until you

stop

> the transaction and restart it. Using read-committed transactions

you can

> just re-query the database to see the changes. See the IB/FB

documentation

> to understand the differences between transaction modes.
>
> Woody (TMW)
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>
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