Database configuration
Main menu - Options - Configure databases
Usually, a user works with a set of databases from one or more database servers. The user must remember the location of files and servers, the protocols to use etcs to connect to databases.
With the database configuration option you can store all this information and access it on database management operations (open, create, backup). You assign a database name (as an Alias in the BDE), and set all the options and you can save it (if you don't save the configuration the application will not remember the configuraton).
This is a easy way to speed up the access to databases and can be uses also as a most recent used databases.
The configuration can be saved as system configuration and user configuration.
Main menu - Options - User databases
If this option is checked you can see the configuration for you as a single user, the other user can't see your database configuration, you can enable this option to work with your own private databases.
Main menu - Options - System databases
If this option is checked you are working with system database configuration, all the users that works with this option sees the same database configuration, but if you are not an Administrator or Advanced user you can only read the information, not modify it. You usually work with this option checked when you use user shared databases.
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