On 08/05/2006, at 10:12 PM, Thinus van Rensburg wrote:
Now Peter my mate I hope this is not on a certain server that you are preparing for shipment in a few days :)-
Compared to any system using a modern database engine other than Microsoft's, the MD3 or Pracsoft 3 installation is like pulling teeth, but with the now very good support we are getting from HCN we are getting the installs done well, including two huge conversions over the weekend. The upgrade on one database of just over 2GB, with minimal binary data took over 14 hours on a 2GHz+ AMD box running full MSSQL server.
ManageEzy (Redmap) is terrible but apparently HCN know this and are planning to replace it. It hard codes internal links and needs to be manually massaged if you change hostname, volume name or path of the data. Which means automated backup and restore or a hot spare server is going to be very difficult to achieve.
I am going to attempt to solve this by always referencing the data from a network share, but this introduces another point of failure (and will require a host name change on a backup server prior to documents being available) so it's less than ideal.
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