Re: SQL & Exchange Take it to the ring

From: Paul Mac (noreply_at_nospam.com)
Date: 11/25/04


Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 21:51:30 +1100

Thanks Markham,

Sounds interesting, however the application is supplied by the dealer group,
so there is no other option. Previousuly it was a thick-client, but the new
system saw the implementaion of a SQL system.

Thanks for your post anyway, I'll add that to the chest.

Paul.
"Markham Robinson" <webmaster@masterplanner.com> wrote in message
news:22c5a4b9.0411241634.6aa34086@posting.google.com...
> You wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > one of my clients has recently been provided with a new version of the
> > Financial Planning software, which uses SQL server rather than the
> > server-side data files. Previously we have never had any issues with
memory,
> > but we are finding that the system is becoming slower & slower, and is
> > starting to drop connections to other third party applications, which
> > utilise fox-pro databases.
> >
> > The current config is:
> > Dell Poweredge 2500
> > P3 800 x 1
> > 1024Mb Ram (4x256)
> > 3 x 32 Gb SCSI Raid 5
> >
> Have you heard of MasterPlan, the Analyst? It uses Interbase which is
> a client/server relational database that uses SQL and is open source
> and open licence. It doesn't appear to suffer performance problems.
> Since Interbase is free, MasterPlan has a price advantage and the same
> functionality as a program using SQL Server or Oracle. MasterPlan has
> just two versions, the standalone and the network. It accesses
> Interbase thru Borland's BDE. They claim that they are going to get
> rid of the BDE by using an API set that works with Delphi, their
> development platform, so they won't have as many installation
> problems.



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