women_lover_best (sic) wrote:

>
> well i would like an opinion on an architecture question..
> I am involved in a project..where users are processing sales at
> terminals..which r connected to server at district levels..
> every district has multiple sales office,and each sales office has
> multiple POS terminal
> now..we r using .net and windows app and firebird as database
> i was wondering if i can use an embedded firebird with win app which
> will be deployed at terinals,and after every transaction the FB
> server at district will be updated..

The difficulty is that the embedded application has exclusive access to
the local database. It can access other databases, so if you're
prepared to include pushing the data to the district as part of the
application, it will work.

What problem are you trying to solve? As a general thing, input from a
point of sales (POS) terminal is not very quick, so the additional
overhead of a local TCP connection isn't all that high. If you can
handle that overhead, you can separate the operational application from
the data upload.

Regards,

Ann