On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Micha Nelissen wrote:
Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
Not scalable ? In what way ?
It's not multi-user and network-capable.
This is also simply not true. It is multi-user capable, and can use
files from a network share, but it's all done in the client, using file
locking.
And that's where it goes wrong.
It does not support transactions, true; but this is a feature, not about
scalability.
I'm not talking about transactions.
While I agree with you that in theory it should work. In practice it simply
does not.
I will invite you to pay some visits to schools where they use a administration
system, based on DBAse files on a network share. The first rule is: only 1 user
can edit a given table at a certain time. Failure to comply with this rule results
in corrupted DBase files.
For correctness, I must also say that the applications are not written using Delphi,
but using FoxPro.
Michael.
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