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"John Hunter" <carlton_fisk72_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<0o0Q8.9013$f52.1248071_at_news-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>...
> Please excuse if I'm in the wrong group...
>
> We are currently doing a feasibility study on changing one of our systems
> from a lotus approach/dbase system to oracle 8i with a VB or web front end.
>
> We are leaning towards a client /server interface because of it's richness,
> but then again a web interface would be easier to deploy and would allow
> quicker response time to the database.
>
> The current system is located at 4 different centres across the country,
> without any direct network connection amongst them.
>
> I would like to see one central data repository, but am worried about
> connection and data retrieval speeds.
>
> We do need the ability to get financial information daily from all 4
> locations and it would be nice to have the ability to sincronize core table
> data (item table, vendor table etc...)
>
> I'm looking for good information (white papers, perhaps) on this subject, I
> have tried google and came up with a few ok articles, but am wondering if
> anyone here could enlighten me on their trials and tribulations.
>
> Thanks alot,
> -John
John, have you looked at the Oracle version# Distributed Database Systems manual? Skimming this will give you a good idea of the basics for setting up and managing such a system.
HTH -- Mark D Powell -- Received on Wed Jun 19 2002 - 15:56:19 CDT