We looked at that but the docs say Local share = true is for
sharing data between a BDE and an non-BDE app at the same
time.
Both our apps are BDE apps.
Any other ideas - the problem remains!
Steven
On 20 Sep 99, at 17:05, Max Renshaw-Fox wrote:
> Would "localshare" help?
>
> Max
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Steven Wild Sent: Friday, 17 September 1999 13:57 To: Multiple
> recipients of list delphi Subject: [DUG]: BDE
>
>
> Hi
>
> In a situation where we have to use dbf tables and the BDE 5.1 we have a
> problem when we have two applications running on the one machine and both
> are accessing the bde. One of them is adding records to a table with a
> bit over 4,000,000 records and 6 indexes in it and the other is wanting to
> view records from the same table. THe one wanting to view is forced to
> wait until the updating is finished.
>
> If the second app is run on a different machine but looking over the
> network at the same tables it gets immediate access to the table while it
> is being updated.
>
> Our conclusion is that the BDE can only adequately service one application
> at a time and so it works OK over the network because each app is using a
> separate copy of the BDE. Assuming that our conclusion is correct how do
> we get the BDE to support two apps concurrently on the one machine?
>
> Steven
>
Steven Wild
Director
Wild Software Ltd
P O Box 33-216
Christchurch, NZ
Ph & Fax 64 3 377-0495
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