Thanks Dmitry

Just to clarify, If I do a gbak of a database with a delta file does that backup include the pending changes in the delta file?

 

27.05.2014 12:41, Tony Christiansen wrote:
>
> I just tried to manually unlock the db.fdb file and that got rid of the
> delta file but the file size is still 309 555 - I would have expected it
> to change if the delta is merged with the database. Is there an
> explanation of what is happening anywhere?

Delta is merged by overwriting the original pages, so the database size
is not going to change unless there were many inserts during the backup.

Dmitry