> :: One possibility is that your "couple thousand things a day"
> :: are all being executed by way of a single Autocommit
> :: transaction and the transaction state bitmap (TSB) is
>
> Only selects are not in explicit transactions - but doesn't FB just wrap
> each one individually then?

with the .NET provider, this is the case but not via other means of
connections

>
> And if this is not the case how do I change it to warp each one
> automatically? And if this is whats the problem, wouldn't it be better to
> return an error to my connection instead of crashing the WHOLE DB
> server????
>

Raise this at the .NET provider newsgroup and Carlos will be more definitive
Alan