Alan McDonald wrote:

> and each of these 50+ servers are fully vacated of users?

It is possible that someone is connected.

However, IMHO the engine should not allow DDL that requires exclusive
access to run when you don't have it. Just like Foreign key creation
failed with Firebird 1.0 when there were other attachments.

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Milan Babuskov
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