And ... into the IBDH this will hopefully all go. :-)


Markus



Helen Borrie wrote:

>
> From: Helen Borrie <helebor@...>
>
> At 07:29 AM 27-03-00 -0800, you wrote:
> >From: "Markus Kemper" <mkemper@...>
> >
> > One area I've seen some programmers struggle in doing
> > this is that their application design is not ready
> > for a multiuser environment. Meaning that things
> > like TTables, select(*), count(*) are throughout the
> > application. And sometimes transaction control is
> > less than optimal. One will not notice the performance
> > impact of the above operations until put into a
> > multiuser environement and then performance goes
> > out the window.
> >
> > Only go to the database when you need to.
>
> Whilst I agree with this TOTALLY, another point that needs to be made about
> desktop apps is that database performance is terrible if the local server
> is running in competition with the usual bucketload of desktop apps. Add
> to that the habit of desktop users hooking up their overloaded (usually
> Win98) machines in a workgroup (whether sharing the database or not) and
> you have a whole lot of looooong coffee breaks. Desktop IB needs to have
> the undivided attention of the whole box.
>
> Helen
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