Re: Data Storage

2008-04-05 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
On 4/5/08 3:47 AM, Dan Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Dan, I read that Valentina is a single user database. From page 251 of the Revolution user guide: Valentina is a fast, efficient single-user database engine for Mac OS X, and Windows systems. Well, this means only that

Re: Data Storage

2008-04-05 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Dan Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings! If I'm using Revolution standalones on a series of clients, and I want to store semi-large to large amounts of data on a server and allow multiple users access to this data simultaneously, is my ONLY choice MySQL - on a server that

Re: Data Storage

2008-04-05 Thread Phil Davis
Dan Friedman wrote: Greetings! If I'm using Revolution standalones on a series of clients, and I want to store semi-large to large amounts of data on a server and allow multiple users access to this data simultaneously, is my ONLY choice MySQL - on a server that allows remote SQL data access?

Re: Data Storage

2008-04-05 Thread Paul Looney
Dan, If your data is read only, then all you have to do is lock the disk on which it resides. All users with permission to access that disk will be able to read it. Paul Looney On Apr 4, 2008, at 4:25 PM, Dan Friedman wrote: Greetings! If I'm using Revolution standalones on a series of

Data Storage

2008-04-04 Thread Dan Friedman
Greetings! If I'm using Revolution standalones on a series of clients, and I want to store semi-large to large amounts of data on a server and allow multiple users access to this data simultaneously, is my ONLY choice MySQL - on a server that allows remote SQL data access? Are there any other

Re: Data Storage

2008-04-04 Thread Stephen Barncard
Not at all! for starters: OPEN SOURCE: PostGreSQL http://www.postgresql.org/ FAST: Valentinahttp://www.paradigmasoft.com/ Greetings! If I'm using Revolution standalones on a series of clients, and I want to store semi-large to large amounts of data on a server and

Re: Data Storage

2008-04-04 Thread Dan Friedman
I read that Valentina is a single user database. From page 251 of the Revolution user guide: Valentina is a fast, efficient single-user database engine for Mac OS X, and Windows systems. I went to Valentina's web site, but yicks! I can't make heads or tails out of any of it! -Dan