Hello Klement,

Wednesday, July 30, 2003, 6:38:44 AM, you wrote:

> It should be possible to have the database file on any location the server have access to.
> To restrict database files to local drives makes no sense as
> Gigabit netzwork is todays standard.
> It should always be up to the user where to put the database file
> and not forced be implementation.

It's not the network speed that is a problem. It's that a file is
harder to be locked remotely, so that would mean that it would be
possible for 2 servers to access the same database file. And, that
would be asking for database corruption. Also, it could be a security
risk.

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Best regards,
Daniel Rail
Senior System Engineer
ACCRA Group Inc. (www.accra.ca)
ACCRA Med Software Inc. (www.filopto.com)