Thanks for the prompt response! ... and explanation! Based on my specific case, what radio buttons should I select?
On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 9:16 AM Richard Damon rich...@damon-family.org [firebird-support] <firebird-support@yahoogroups.com> wrote: > > > On 9/28/19 8:52 AM, Clyde Eisenbeis cte...@gmail.com [firebird-support] > wrote: > > > > I'll be using Firebird on my personal laptop. My program (that uses > > that database) will be used often > > every day. > > > > I'm puzzled by some of the questions as I have assumed Firebird is a > > dormant database file that my program accesses. It sounds like > > Firebird is a program that needs to run to work. > > > Firebird is a Database Client/Server application. You program is linked > to the client side, which talks to the server side (and the server side > works the actually database file). This is the way many Database systems > work, and has advantages in that the server side has the ability to > enforce certain sharing and access rules on the database. It does mean > you need to start the 'server' app to access the database. > > There are other database systems where the client library directly > accesses the database file(s), SQLite works that way, Microsoft Access > can work that way, the ancient xBase worked that way. These databases > can be converted into a Client/Server system by wrapping them with a > Client/Server wrapper layer, but tend not to provide a lot of access > control, since if the user application is directly accessing the file, > there isn't much the database system can do to 'protect' itself.. > > -- > Richard Damon > > >
