Subject | Re: Embedded Database from server share. |
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Author | Adam |
Post date | 2006-01-12T22:46:26Z |
> The problem is that I cannot setup a server in the work environmentto host
> the firebird server. My PC is not always going to be on. Soinstalling the
> server there would not be stable enough. It just seem to me thatembedded
> should work on any drive type. Why does it matter if its a networkdrive.
>If the "server" is not on, how on earth are you accessing the share on
the server?
if T: is mapped to \\MyServer\tdrive
and you then install the Firebird Service on "MyServer", then you will
have just as much availability either way. If I shutdown MyServer,
then yes the Firebird Service will be closed, but your T drive will
hardly work now either.
Firebird is not like Access / Paradox / other desktop database. A
little secret if you haven't yet discovered, Embedded is nothing more
than Superserver with the TCP connection bits pulled out compiled into
a single DLL.
This allows you to run Firebird in several environments as a single
program environment. This is useful in n-tier environments, or
sticking the application + database on a USB key.
Adam