Interesting that you say its required. It seems the forced writes setting can be applied without shutting the database down ... will it not take effect until the database is shutdown? I guess it sounds like it will be best to shutdown the database first anyway.

We have 10,000 databases on different machines. There are a few different apps that use the database and some of the machines act as server on small networks.

Thomas

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@...> wrote:
>
> At 12:05 PM 7/12/2010, tjjjohnson wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >We have firebird databases deployed on about 10,000 machines. We've had issues with database corruption and found that forced writes were turned off. So we're looking to issue a patch
> >
> >Is a database shutdown recommended before changing the forced writes setting?
>
> Required, actually.
>
> (Curious: 10,000 databases? or one database and 10,000 clients?)
>
> ./heLen
>