> Adam, if I understand correctly then your suggestion only works for
> firebird service, not application, im I right?
>
> Alan, I don't want to use embedded fb because I got advice from this
> forum not to use embedded fb when the application using it is not
> robust enought (or otherwise application bugs can accidentally
> corrupt database)
>
> The users of my app have generally very old computers and so I don't
> want to leave FB running when my application is finished.
>
> Aivar

gee - don't scared of like that... give it a go. It can't be that dangerous.
Alan