Re: What database shall I use???

I've had great luck with a rolodex too. I once had a rolodex where more than one person could simultaneously read/write cards. Performance was just fine and there was no corruption or concurrency problems.

Perhaps your definition of "acceptable" is light years from mine.

Daniel Morgan

"David W. Fenton" wrote:

> corey.lawson_at_worldnet.att.com (corey lawson) wrote in
> <3c8c2550.31870118_at_netnews.att.net>:
>
> >If you're only doing read-only access to Access [sic], then Access
> >isn't too bad, even for large MDB files. It starts bogging down
> >hard when your MDB size gets over ~20MB or so and >5 simultaneous
> >read-write users, generally.
>
> You're simply WRONG.
>
> Wrong.
>
> You obviously don't know how to design a properly functioning multi
> -user Access database.
>
> I have a client with a 375MB Access database (3 tables have over
> 300K records in them) with 5-10 simultaneous read/write users.
> Performance is just fine, there is no corruption and there are no
> concurrency problems.
>
> --
> David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton
> dfenton at bway dot net http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc
Received on Tue Mar 12 2002 - 09:48:10 CST