Depends on the data..... These days with identity theft rampant...
anything with a PII element would be on a desktop over my dead body.
Software suppliers also tell me to run as admin and these days we need
to push strongly back on that as well.
Access works for a 'small' multi user app.. and I do mean small.
Dave Wade wrote:
Joe,
Well all agree on that, however we are pretty much stuck with the
apps in question "as-is" as the software is supplied "from above"
(e.g. the stuff from www.ncer.org <http://www.ncer.org>). These days I
copy the database onto a users PC and they run the reports and
analysis locally, as that's what the software supplier tells them to
do, and the users are happy with that.
Dave.
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*Sent:* 23 May 2006 04:38
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] RAID 5 Best Practice
Access is crap to use for a multiuser app. Don't discount the fact
that the perf could be simply related to that.
--
O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition -
http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Dave Wade
*Sent:* Thursday, May 18, 2006 7:08 PM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] RAID 5 Best Practice
Its the one thing that seems to give us performance issues. Last time
I investigated things running slow, client was quiet (low CPU short
disk queue, minimal paging) , network was quiet yet response was slow.
Conclusion was that server was some how bottle neck. I must admit I
didn't do much work on investigation. I think they should use
appropriate tool such as msde (only a few users) but program is
provided by central government, so we are stuck with it. I wonder if
it was just running same time as backups perhaps...
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*Sent:* Thu 18/05/2006 23:34
*To:* [email protected]
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*Subject:* RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] RAID 5 Best Practice
Access database will likely get cached on the client in memory, in
any case it’d be all read ops. Access doesn’t cache report output.
*Thanks,**
*Brian Desmond**
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*From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Dave Wade
*Sent:* Thursday, May 18, 2006 6:22 PM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] RAID 5 Best Practice
For file sharing, I would consider 0Ư but 5 would be more likely
since you
probably want/need the space more than the speed. File sharing doesn't
really beat the disks up relative to a busy DC even in large
multi-thousand
user file servers I have seen.
What about when some idiot user sets up an Access database on one
and runs "inappropriate" reports against it..
It is why most normal server admins really
have no clue what to look for in terms of IO load on servers but any
Exchange Admin worth anything is looking at that right away in a
problem
situation and able to quote IOPS stats off the top of their head
and know
what they can get from the underlying disk subsystem. Exchange
disk configs
are critical.
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