>> But if you're developing on Windows (as you must be) and deploying the server on
>> another platform, then you have the strongest possible reason to get away from
>> "the database path" at application level and use aliases.conf.
>
> If I add an alias named "customers" to aliases.conf, then I just change the
> TIB_Connection.DatabaseName to "Customers" and that's all there is to it?

You must also tell which server has your database (unless it is local), you may be on
a network with several Firebird servers and Firebird cannot guess which server to
connect to. Using TCP/IP and with a server named RickRoss, I would then either set
TIB_Connection.DatabaseName to RickRoss:Customers or set TIB_Connection.Server to
RickRoss and TIB_Connection.Path to Customers. I think using the IP Address of the
server is an alternative to using its name.

HTH,
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