May be the engine itself is multiuser, but it´s non sense to think it as a multiuser, since it has been thought to have it in portable applications, having been put in pendrives and small equipments that will not share it´s data directly.
 
If this data must to be sincronized with another DB server, it´s adequate that the sincronization will be done by the portable application itself. Or it must capable of export it´s data and import data files like csv type (or binary files, a.s.o.).
 
If an application using embedded DB will capture data for a bigger DB system, better to think and plan it to be only data collector, yet if it and the O.S. are capable of multi-processes and tasks.
 
So I think.

Roberto Camargo / RJ


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From: Helen Borrie <helebor@...>
To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 5:55 AM
Subject: Re: [firebird-support] v 2.5 embedded is multi-user ?

At 09:46 PM 27/01/2012, Elmar Haneke wrote:

>Am 26.01.2012 20:39, schrieb Jeff:
>> I see that it supports multi-processes.
>Id is mostly intended to be able to open an second DB client for debug
>purpose.
>> how bout multi-user / DB on shared network drive ?

No, only on the local machine.

>In an scenario with very few DB operations it might be possible to do
>so, read documentation to enable operation on shared drive.

No

>Usually it is the better way to install an server process on one of the
>machines (e.g. the fileserver).

It is the *only* way to have remote clients accessing a database.

./heLen



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