Could be an issue especially when ling DB times are occuring.
Doug
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From: Thomas Chiverton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 15:51:15 +0100
Subject: Re: Coding question ?
To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Monday 20 Sep 2004 14:53 pm, applemicro wrote:
> I have a page that will display infromation from a remote database.
> What i want to do is display the information from the remote database
> but if the query to the remote database takes long then 5 sec I want
> to abort the current query and query my local database which contains
> a versions of the data but is 24 hours old
Leaving aside the issue of nothing should ever take that long in a database,
the normal approach would be to have a hidden frame or setTimeout'ed
_javascript_ function reload the page after 5 seconds, setting some parameter
to indicate to do something different.
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