[FX.php List] one machine intallation

[Tom Sepper]

Oh I definitely remember the difficulties that Server 5.5 saddled us with. There's definitely a happy-medium that we have to discover for each of our FM solutions. 

For me, there's about five tables in my 80-table solution that I just can't make any definition changes to while others are connected. 


Tom Sepper
Director of Information Technology
Director's Choice Tour & Travel

P 806.762.6354
F 806.763.7637

tsepper at directorschoice.travel
www.directorschoicetourandtravel.com



-----Original Message-----
From: fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org on behalf of Kevin Futter
Sent: Wed 4/25/2007 7:34 PM
To: FX.php Discussion List
Subject: Re: [FX.php List] one machine intallation
 
On 26/4/07 9:53 AM, "Tom Sepper" <tsepper at directorschoice.travel> wrote:

> I can definitely see why FMI would say it's best practice to make DB changes
> offline. I'm sure we've all noticed the annoying "bug" when duplicating
> layouts and such. Remember that pre-FM7 that you couldn't make definition
> changes to a live database; it had to be offline.
> 
> A few weeks ago, I was working from home writing a pretty intricate script
> when my Internet connection went out for about five minutes. When it came back
> up, I tried to log onto my FM database only to see that all scripts were gone!
> This DB file has about 600 scripts. Thank God for backups!
> 
On the other hand, we used to struggle to maintain our databases effectively
running under the restrictions imposed by 5.5 Server, as our databases are
busy enough to make it impossible to take them offline for work. This was
especially annoying if all you wanted to do was fix a typo on a layout. We
find the whole show much easier to manage now, but I will concede that there
could be unknown negative side-effects to this approach. So far though, the
benefits far outweigh the negatives.

-- 
Kevin Futter
Webmaster, St. Bernard's College
http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/


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