--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Elmar Haneke <elmar@...> wrote:

>
>
> > A quick question: are there any restrictions on the (simultaneous) use of multiple aliases pointing to the same database?
>
> The server does internally resolve aliases at an early stage and calls
> the internal open procedure with the regular name afterwards. I would
> assume the server to forget about an database beeing opened by alias.
>
> Therefore, you can use aliases as needed.
>
> Elmar
>

Thanks, that is just the answer I was hoping to receive!

Hans