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The server is a process on the system. And the database resides
somewhere on the hard-disk as a file.
You don't load a database-file into the server. So the server-
software doesn't know which databases are running. As long as the
server is running, you can access the fdb-files as database.
So you can run different databases on one instance of the server-
software. And in the server-software you don't have to setup
anything according to the databases.

correct to here

The username/password is for the server. How is this in the database
itself? You don't have a userlist on every database. Only in the
server.

it isn't, the server has a seperate database that is always present, that
stores usernames, passwords etc



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