--On Wednesday, January 08, 2003 22:08:11 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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 simultaneouslyI 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.
I can think of 2 ways:
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.
scott
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