--On Wednesday, January 08, 2003 22:08:11 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can think of 2 ways:I've just moved into a new medical office and am trying to build a multiuser, multi workstation database where doctors can input patient notes simultaneously....I know it can be done, but here's the problem... I build a stack which I put on the share drive and two or three doctors open it up and use it, but how can information or a record be saved so a Doctor who is in open room can see the note written in another office? Seems like I have to save and then close the stack and then run to another room and open the same stack from the share drive to be able to retrieve info written in a different part of the office.
1. save and store all the data to text file (or a separate stack for that matter) and have the application update itself every other second. This works for your shared drive setup but it is not very elegant.
2. use a client-server setup where all data is sent by client applications to the server which upon receiving new data propagates it to the other clients. The communication between clients and server is done using sockets and a simple protocol and it doesn't require a shared drive.
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