>Hi all
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>I use CodeBook as the framework. It use ini file (or registry, which I have overridden) as the place to store settings. Now I have global settings also in there like rounding of values (I know, I know, I am sorry but the world is revolving for me tonight around it :))
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>Now I was glad when I could connect to FireBird as the backend without sharing harddisk resources between the server and clients. The ini files being local has beat the purpose, at least the global settings I want each and every client pc to inherit.
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>One thought comes to mind is creating a table in the database that would provide global settings.
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>What would be the right way. Please advise.

Actually, a settings table with several records - one global, one per workstation, one per user, and a memo in each of them with XML or even a attribute=value list of pairs, and you can have a full hierarchy of settings if you want. Or you can have just one record, for the global. So your ini is in a memo in such a table. You can even copy it out on app start and read the settings the old way.