[DUG] List working?

[Neven MacEwan]

Jeremy

Yes everybody has a story where #THEY# got a dog to do tricks, It still 
doesn't alter the fact that its a dog

 > BUT in saying that

And your point is?

Neven

Jeremy Coulter wrote:
> Actually Traci, have to disagree with you about Access.
> We use it with our applications that are recording live data, sometimes a 
> record every less than a second or there abouts, and people are producing 
> reports on the same database, and they are quite bigish in some cases too, 
> and we dont really notice, and clients dont report any, performance issues 
> in these situations.
> Ok, I have used Delphi and Access since about Delphi 2, and before that when 
> I used to do VB stuff...VB 3... and I know a few tricks admittedly, but the 
> one one KEY thing to do with access is make sure you do regular Compact and 
> Repair's. We have maintenace on our apps. run every night, and it just keeps 
> on going.
> 
> BUT in saying that, I am getting concerned about the size of SOME sites, so 
> we are looking at moving to MSDE or even Firebird, but I need to investigate 
> the concequences of the move and how we update customers, implications of 
> running these DB serves inline with other servers esp. SQLServer and MSDE 
> etc.
> 
> Jeremy
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Traci Sumpter" <Traci.Sumpter at opus.co.nz>
> To: <grant at sitedoc.com.au>, "'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'" 
> <delphi at ns3.123.co.nz>
> Cc: 
> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:39:38 +1300
> Subject: RE: [DUG] List working?
> 
>> PostgreSQL Is Really Great also!!!  And Yes, Access is great for one
>> person
>> apps, Quick and Dirty solution there.  However when you need to make it
>> multi user on network there is so much that needs to be done to keep it
>> reliable and still that is no guarantee either.
>>
>> "Step away from the Access"
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz
>> [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz] On
>> Behalf Of Grant Brown
>> Sent: Thursday, 9 March 2006 6:45 p.m.
>> To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
>> Subject: Re: [DUG] List working?
>>
>> Hi David,
>>
>>> 2. Trying to move to Firebird, but after using Access for most things,
>>> asking myself why?
>>> 3. Project is a simple C/S app, scaling from 1 machine to 50, possibly
>>> without server.
>>> Having to really convince myself that Firebird is a good idea: Access 
>>> is so much easier for a relatively small app...
>>
>> If your going to move to c/s with 50 users then MS Access is a really
>> really
>> bad choice.
>>
>> MS Access is just a desktop DB, the performance goes through the floor
>> after
>> about 5 users logged in.
>>
>> Like you I started with MS Access but soon found out it was a big
>> mistake.
>>
>> Just a tip, FireBird is really good, but NexusDb is brilliant and would
>> be
>> my first choice.
>>
>> Anyway just my 2C
>>
>> Regards
>> Grant Brown
>>>
>>>   
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