On Friday, January 14, 2005, at 09:20AM, Alan McDonald <alan@...> wrote:

>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Thanks for the reply, I appreciate it.
>>
>> On Thursday, January 13, 2005, at 11:07PM, Svein Erling Tysvær
>> <svein.erling.tysvaer@...> wrote:
>>
>> >> I am using FB 1.5.2, with Delphi 7 and the IB components. My
>> >> question is, why when I insert a record into a table don't I see it
>> >> in another running program?
>> >
>> >Probably because of transactions...
>>
>> I neglected to mention that this is a single user application
>> that I am writing. Even still, I was running two instances of my
>> test application to try and get a better idea as to what happens
>> when dealing with transactions and which application can see what
>> when the other makes a change to the database.
>>
>
>wait a second - you have single user - running embedded and then you run 2
>instances????
>you are running these two instances against the same physical datbase?
>Can't be done - that's exactly what embedded stops you from doing. The first
>instance of the app will get a connection to the database and lock out
>any/all other attempts to conect to the database.
>Alan

I am not running embedded for my small test application, just for my other application. My tests are just to try and see what happens with transactions with various different settings on the components. My other application uses embedded and that's the one I was asking about how to backup the database.