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QuestionChanging Dll Source File Path!! Pin
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QuestionBad performance when accessing files over a network share Pin
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Dave Kreskowiak27-Jan-06 5:11
mveDave Kreskowiak27-Jan-06 5:11 
There's no "fix" for this and only your testing on each version of the server is going to find any possible versions that are not affected. Also, your ISAM driver could render the results of this testing invalid.

I personally never use shared access to files. It's way too flaky and entirely dependent on the server's file system and network clients working perfectly (yeah, right! Wink | ;) ). This can change from file server vendor to vendor (Novell Netware, Unix, Samba, Windows Networking, ...). Completely unsupportable...

If shared data is behind the application, I always go with SQL Server. It's simply the right tool for the job!

Now, I also realize that it's a very LARGE tool and is overkill for some applications. You CAN get away with a kind of file-sharing, without sharing the file. I've done this once before, by using a server-side singleton object that wraps the access to the file and maintains the database for the applications. This class library exposes methods that the clients call to get and set the data that they need while completely insulating the clients from the database.

The really nice part about this is that you can have multiple application types (Windows Forms, ASP.NET Web Apps, and mobile devices) all using the same database wrapper at the same time without knowning a damn thing about the database itself and without re-writing the datbase code for each platform!


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QuestionAutostart program? Pin
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QuestionWindows Xp Net Use Problem.. Pin
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QuestionHow to preserve heap from overfull. Pin
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Questionhow to read and write a file use unicode in windows 98?? Pin
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