At 01:57 PM 9/01/2007, you wrote:

>Hello,
>
>We have a .NET desktop application which uses the Firebird 1.5
>embedded server. Generally the app loads the entire DB (typically 20-
>50MB FDB files) in memory (in a .Net DataSet), displays it to the
>user and after that only when the user changes or adds something we
>save the change to the DB. In other words, the DB engine initially
>does a lot of reading, after that it does some writing via INSERT or
>UPDATE and almost no SELECT-s.

Bizarre!!

>In order to minimize the memory usage

ROFL !!

./hb