Thanks, when it comes to FM, I'm still learning. I had seen some
mentions of ODBC compliance in the manual, but the sparse nature of the
information seemed fishy. We are currently serving some internal
databases on FMP Server 5 and FMP Unlimited and I was curious.
Thank you for preventing a potential mistake!
-Curtis
Ron Hornbaker wrote:
>> Has anyone here tried to use a FileMaker database as the external user
>> database? What kind of success/failure did you have?
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> That would be a Bad Idea, even if you could get it to work with FMP's
> sort-of-odbc implementation. We've got quite a bit of experience with
> FileMaker... it's great for internal apps on the LAN, but its biggest
> problem in your proposed usage is that it is single-threaded... only one
> query at a time. With a busy mail server, you're hitting the db on every
> single POP access, SMTP access, and webmail page/frame load; FMP would
> quickly get clogged-up, then crumple under the volume.
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> -Ron
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