Brad Pepers wrote:

>On April 3, 2004 02:39 am, Christian Gütter wrote:
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>>Hi Johan,
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>>>Can we get absolute clarity on this one - how safe is Firebird in the
>>>case of power outage !?
>>>
>>>
>>Pretty safe - as long as you have Forced Writes activated.
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>What is the best way to get Forced Writes activated? Can you set it by
>database when you create the database? Do you set it by connection when
>connecting to a database? Can I do it in my own code without calling out to
>an external program?
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>

Brad,

you really should read the Release Notes for Firebird.
This will answer a lot of your first question about Firebird.
You can find it here:
http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&page=ibp_download_15

Hope this helps,
Uwe