> I just replied to a question on another forum that made me wonder
> about FB
> record locking.
>
> The original question was in reference to incremental search on a
> Paradox
> based dbgrid. Typing in a string can have an incremental search routine
> work on the (already loaded from the local or server db) data. As
> ALL the
> data has been transferred to the users pc this can be done.
>
> What would happen if such a tranfer was done with FB?

if you use IBO connection components, they can do the same magic for you but
from the server and it's very fast.

>
> Assuming the users pc has ALL of the records returned (select *) for use
> in such an incremental search, what happens to other users of the same
> data? Seeing FB supports MGA, does this mean that FB would
> transfer ALL of
> the records and allow other users normal access to the database/table as
> normal? I presume it would.

IBO only transfer the record it needs to fill it's buffers. and in a lot of
cases, only the PKs of the records.

>
> BTW this was something I would not normally do, however it does
> seem that
> at least a single column of data on which the incremental search
> is based,
> could be transferred for the search purpose. Triggers could then advise
> the user's instance when the incremental search data needs to be
> refreshed.
>
> Hmmm? I would like to know the answer to that one.
>
> --
> Kind regards
>
> Peter Sanders

time for you to look closely at IBO
Alan