Re: [ADMIN] Linux Distributions

ap back and forth to test). 5% isn't a huge difference, but it is a real world application. Dave. -- |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[ADMIN] Problems upgrading from 7.1.3

emplate1 done ... add grep -v's to taste. Now... this doesn't recreate users with 'createuser' or 'createdatabase' permissions. You may want to adjust this. Dave. -- |David Gilbert, Veloce

[ADMIN] Query failing with strange error.

yone got any ideas? Dave. -- ======== |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca |

[ADMIN] repair table? database? how ? neccessary?

> "mitchell" == mitchell laks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: mitchell> The main issue I had with Access was that as the database mitchell> got larger, My application began to fail regularly, and I mitchell> began to need to do "repair" of the database almost on a mitchell> daily or other daily ba

Re: [ADMIN] H/W RAID 5 on slower disks versus no raid on faster HDDs

) was about 20% in-order (vs. un-ordered) writes. Softupdates (FreeBSD) only requires 1%-ish (or less) in-order writes (or to put it another way: 1% of writes chosen before they would otherwise happen). DAve. -- ==== |David G

Re: [ADMIN] H/W RAID 5 on slower disks versus no raid on faster HDDs

>>>>> "Hossein" == Hossein S Zadeh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hossein> On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 23:03, David Gilbert wrote: >> I'm on a bit of a mission to stamp out this misconception. In my >> testing, all but the most expensive hardware rai

Re: [ADMIN] H/W RAID 5 on slower disks versus no raid on faster HDDs

machines with less processor power than disk bandwidth. It is likely no longer true. To be more exact: yes, filesystems have overhead, but the overhead is processor overhead ... of which (compared to disk bandwidth) you have lots. OSs have also become more efficient. Dave. -- ====

Re: [ADMIN] Hardware needed for 15,000,000 record DB?

ily stop processing requests to perform a recalibration ... where IDE drives may only do this when they are idle for some small period of time. Dave. -- |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | equal if and onl

Re: [ADMIN] Linux Distributions

ap back and forth to test). 5% isn't a huge difference, but it is a real world application. Dave. -- |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[ADMIN] Recovering corrupted data.

a big step. I can even see that all the text of the database rows is still in the file data/base/dbname/tablename ... so I figure that the corruption is in some major index or config file. Help? Dave. -- ==== |David Gilber

[ADMIN] Applix ODBC interface.

ed Windoze ODBC apps like access to PostgreSQL, but I don't know exactly where to proceed here. Dave. -- ======== |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]