Hello Joaquin,

j> Is this the same option as the "new" read-only transaction in IB 7.1 ?
j> They say that they have a special read-only transaction that does not
j> impact on performance. Don't understand exactly the mecanism of the
j> transactions but it seems that with their special read-only
j> transactions there is no need for lots of internal management and that
j> results in better performance.

My guess is that that's another feature of IB7... AFAIK, you could set
READ parameter for a transaction using both IB6.x and FB1.x. Maybe
Borland improved read-only transactions somehow...


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