David Johnson wrote:

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> The system I normally work on is considered large by most standards - we
> support roughly 8,000 real-time users and some unspecified number of
> real-time and batch processes. We run over 1,000,000 transactions per
> hour at peak times.
>
> The underlying DBMS that we are using (not Firebird)

Which one are you using if I may ask?

> supports only 500 concurrent connections.

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