On 27/09/06, John vd Waeter <john@...> wrote:

> I meant using 2 (or more) ISQL connections the same way you have tested
> connecting to your problem-database.

that what I did to other dbs fine, just not the employee.fdb

> And another wild guess... could it be that the database is in a
> shutdownstate so that only sysdba can have one exclusive connection to it?

certainly nothing was done to it to have that effect, it was simply copied