It was the driver flags. I had them set to 4608 (which is for soft commits). Setting it to 512 fixed the problem. Cheers Gary Benner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 08/12/98 06:54:04 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: (bcc: Peter Jones/Logistics&Information Technology/Christchurch/Foodstuffs) Subject: Re: [DUG]: Interbase latency (?) Hi all, At 08:51 8/12/98 +1200, Peter wrote: > > >I have a server process that updates our interbase db. Changes to the db >do not become visible to the client unless the client re-connects. Is this >correct or havve I got a wrong setting somewhere? > This will usually be becasue the server process has not committed the data, or the client needs to refresh its view. The same situation occurrs with WISQL. If you look at a table in WISQL, then change the table in your own app, then relook at the data in WISQL it will not appear to have changed. But if you then do a commit in WISQL, and relook at the data, aha, there are the changes. This is all to do with the versioning engine in Interbase, where you only see data in a consistent view. ie so if you run a query, you see a snapshot of the data in the state at the instant you began the query, even though someone else may have changed the data during the course of the query being executed. Re-connecting the client has just refreshed the view, so the changes become apparent. Look at the IB settings in the BDEAdmin, to sort out how you view the data. In particular see SQLPASSTHRU MODE and the DRIVER FLAGS settings. BDEAdmin help is good. Kindest Regards Gary =============================================================== Gary Benner - Software Developer - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corporate Software New Zealand Limited - Auckland - New Zealand tel: +64-9 846-6067 fax: +64-9 846-6152 mob: (021)-966-992 Client Server | Automation | Delphi Mentor Services | Interbase http://www.corporate.co.nz =============================================================== --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz