At 11:20 AM 21/12/2006, Richard Wesley wrote:

> - Firebird is embeddable

True

>and file-based.

False. A file-based DBMS creates filesystem objects to store tables,
indices, etc., and accesses them internally as files. Firebird does
NOT do this under any circumstances.

A Firebird database does not even have to be a file. It can be a
storage device in its own right.

./heLen