At 7:35 AM +1100 2/20/05, Alan McDonald wrote:

> > Try this experiment:
>> 1: Start writing to the database.
>> 2: Bring up the Windows monitoring tools and watch the disk activity.
>> You'll see things are being written to the disk.
>> 3: Stop writing to the database.
>> 4: Now disconnect.
>> You will probably see some disk activity -- but very little.
>>
>> This is how I finally convinced myself that things were working properly.
>> --Ray
>
>so Ray - if someone hits the reset button after doing some major writes -
>are they there after re-boot?
>Alan

I'll admit to only trying this twice, but yes...the data was there.
In testing, I hit the reset button after step #3 above -- before the
disconnect.
After reboot, the displayed file size and date/time were updated properly.
Firebird did precisely what it is supposed to do.
As previously noted, this seems to be a Windows "display" issue.
--Ray

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