Delphi 5, IBO 4.3.A, Firebird 1.5

What's the relationship between a db commit and forced writes? If forced writes is true, what does db commit do? Does it make the changes 'visible' to other programs.

I am using TIBODatabase and, TIBOQuery and implicit transaction control. Should I have a db commit after each logical set of updates to ensure that other programs have the latest view of the database?

Thanks

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