Also Windows 98 uses a FAT file system where XP and 2000 probably are using NTFS file systems. I'm not sure if that would cause a problem or not.
Simply running a 2000 Professional workstation to serve the R:Base database files might work well. It is best not to run R:Base on the computer doing the serving. I have seen corruption in the past by trying to do that. eg. odd characters in certain fields.
I would also to a 'reload' command to copy and compress the database files. Then rename the original (don't delete!) and rename the reloaded database to the orgininal name. After that I would run an 'Auto' command to check for any errors. Sometimes this will really help the database when your having errors.
At 03:42 PM 4/21/2005, you wrote:
I'm sitting here helping out another consultant who has
significant database corruption at several clients. I have
practically no corruption at any of my clients. One common
thread he thought of -- these clients have XP or 2000
workstations connecting to a database on a Windows 98
database server. Anyone have this configuration?
BTW the reason it's on Win98, is that when he had the
database on W2000 server he said that one user logging in
had no problems. As soon as one other person connected
the performance degraded significantly. Putting the database
on Win98 server put the performance back. So I guess another
question would be if there was a fix for that.....
thank!
Karen
