prabhu19_2k4 (8/29/2008)

I am new to this group.

Hope i am in the rt forum.ODBC Time out parameter gets a default of 60.Can we change this 60 to 0 so that "EVERY"...

Actually, for something that's tremendously spikey, I'd look into a queuing (MSMQ) solution. It depends on you expertise, requirement and the criticality of the app. It...

Openlink does have an option where they can have a generic client driver and keep all integration on a seperate server, and can also wrapper other odbc drivers and...

There should be 64 bit options for progress. Progress should support it, and I used to work for Openlink www.openlinksw.com which did support it with a choice of...

Yeah, we were starting to get into the realm of bashing. I do have some reservations about MySQL as general purpose DB, but other than that, ...

The main issue with large pools is the memory overhead of the connections. Each active connection consumes resources on both the application server and the database. The application...

I try to live by "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlons_Razor

You can't "make it easy", but you can make it easier to live...

I don't think it's that conscious. I think it's more an unconscious attempt to maintain guru status. I have to fight the tendency myself at times. I've...

Amen about the talent question. A standard feature of Open Source is that you need more expertise to create and administer a given architecture. Unfortunately, it appears...

Not recommending you dive into CLR functions. I agree they are for special circumstances at best. How ever, it does have a good sql engine, and...

ADSL line? Is this a VPN connection? Is it over the open Net? Need to be careful.

ADSL is Asymmetric, and you may be getting too much...

TANSTAAFL (There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch). I do want to stress (disarming Trolls) that is not useless, just different. It is not a...

I've used it both as an embedded DB, and as a "real" db backend. There are several things that are good, some are pretty scary. If...

When you are going across the network, bit level doesn't really matter. The problems start when a program written for a bit level needs to import libraries on...

I'd say the course is correct. There are Databases that do not allow joining between objects (hierarchical comes to mind). Tables were introduced by the relational model of...