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> to either copy them to the farcry database for admin area reporting
Wouldn't this then defeat the original purpose of NOT having them in the DB in the first place ?That depends on when you're seeing the performance hit. If it's because of the write to DB for stats logging is slowing down other normal page requests then No. The copy from the external DB to Farcry DB occurs overnight when site traffic is low. The point of moving the stats logging operation to the other database is to stop the log creation requests from locking up the Farcry database for other users. Requests for reports shouldn't need a high level of DB locking, so they shouldn't cause the DB to lock out other users.If you're finding that the DB is locking up when you are reading the reports then you would probably need to hack around in the report generation code too and have all stats based operations in a separate DB, or possibly optimized speicfically for the application.
And using a different reporting tool would then imply that the reporting in FarCry would be redundant - and there are some damn good reports in there!Not necessarily, it might just imply that you need to build reports for an external system using something other than Farcry. COGNOS is one tool that springs to mind.
I like having the stats information there. One of the first "changes" might be to be able to provide the name of the DB that the stats tables are to go into - then you wouldn't have to copy them anywhere and could keep them separate from the main FarCry system.That would work, so would a new application scoped DSN for reporting that defaults to the same value as application.dsn. That would have the added benefit of allowing you to have a different RDBMS for reporting if you needed it.
The other thing that I am starting to think about is a "summary" mechanism. This would consist of a summary table being added to the stats and a background procedure to generate the summary and cull the stats table.
While I dont have time to do it now, I can see that I will HAVE to do it eventually. So my intention would be to feed this back into the FarCry community.
I am already in a situation where the standard FarCry stats reports just take too long to run to be of any use. I just get a "top pages" report mailed to an account each day.
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