[FX.php List] Two DB's or One?

[Jonathan Schwartz]

Err....do which?  Use a single DB or two separate DB's?

J


At 8:58 PM -0500 9/22/06, Bob Patin wrote:
>Jonathan,
>
>I do it all the time with almost every client who has a web database...
>
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>On Sep 22, 2006, at 8:55 PM, Jonathan Schwartz wrote:
>
>>Up until now, all my fx.php solutions have been built around an 
>>isolated FMP database to serve the web.  When there is a primary db 
>>back at the client, I use various routines to update and synch the 
>>two, as needed. Obviously, none of the solutions required live 
>>up-to-the-second data availability on the web.
>>
>>I'm wondering how many folks are using the same db for both 
>>internal and web publishing?  If so, how is it working out?  If 
>>not, why not?
>>
>>A little bit more detail...if the client isn't sophisticated, 
>>doesn't have an IT staff or a fast WAN connection, this would 
>>suggest to me *not* to keep the web db at the client office.  
>>Rather, keep the web db at a reliable web host.
>>
>>One more detail.  I promise. ;-)....If the solution is in FMP 6, 
>>that would pretty much rule putting the entire solution in a remote 
>>hosting location, because FMP is so poor in a WAn environment.
>>
>>Thoughts?
>>
>>Jonathan
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