Subject | Re: [firebird-support] Re[2]: OT: Survey about database corruption (for portuguese speakers only) |
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Author | Ann Harrison |
Post date | 2003-07-11T16:23:01Z |
Tim Ledgerwood wrote:
prevents other processes from writing to it. So, there are two ways to
avoid having two processes open the same database file with different
names on Windows. The first one is to train all your users to be
completely consistent, always. The second is to run Firebird.
Cheers,
Ann
>>There are three classical ways to corrupt an InterBase database.Note that I said InterBase. Firebird takes a lock on the database that
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>>Ann, thanks for this info. Could you explain how the condition above
>>occurs? I mean, how do we avoid it or prevent it happening?
>>
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prevents other processes from writing to it. So, there are two ways to
avoid having two processes open the same database file with different
names on Windows. The first one is to train all your users to be
completely consistent, always. The second is to run Firebird.
Cheers,
Ann