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Startup Command and Parameter
Reference
Read-only Media (-RO)
Use Read-only (
-RO
) to open a database for read-only access. Use-RO
to access a database stored on read-only media (a read-only optical disk, for example).NOTE: Do not run servers for a read-only database. Progress does not support servers for read-only users.If you use the
-RO
parameter when other users are updating the database, you might see invalid data, such as stale data or index entries pointing to records that have been deleted.A read-only session is essentially a single-user session. Read-only users do not share database resources (database buffers, lock table, index cursors). However, unlike a normal single-user database, a read-only database can be simultaneously accessed by multiple
-RO
users.When a read-only session starts, it does not check for the existence of a lock file for the database. Furthermore, a read-only user opens the database file, but not the log or before-image files. Therefore, read-only user activity does not appear in the log file.
If a database is opened with
-RO
, the string returned by the DBRESTRICTIONS function includes the keyword READ-ONLY.
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