Nick Upson wrote:

> On 27/09/06, John vd Waeter <john@...> wrote:
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>>I meant using 2 (or more) ISQL connections the same way you have tested
>>connecting to your problem-database.
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> that what I did to other dbs fine, just not the employee.fdb
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>>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?
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> certainly nothing was done to it to have that effect, it was simply copied
>

If a db is in a shutdown-state, the copy of the file will also be in
shutdownstate. So maybe... ?