Subject Re: [firebird-support] Firebird & MS SQL on same server
Author Dimitry Sibiryakov
09.02.2010 9:31, john.porteous@... wrote:
> We are thinking of moving Firebird to the Windows server as is a newer, much more powerful machine with virtually no processing load (its our domain controller).
>
> Are there any known issues with running both on the same machine?

They will fight for RAM, CPU and disk I/O. What is the worst - domain
controller has write cache turned off (on system drive at least) which
leads to poor performance if database or temporary files is placed there.

> I spotted comments about the need to explicitely define ISQL.exe if used (we dont), the only other coments we have found are performance comparisons.

AFAIK, MS SQL has utility osql.exe, so no conflict is here.

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