Re: Is file is being used

<Eran.Yasso@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1166048220.207062.67320@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Pete, you are right if mdb file was an ordinary file. But, MDB file has
tables. You can look at this tables as many different files attached to
a big file. if both proccess don't write to the same table, then they
are not "sharing the same memory"(file).

See Willy's reply. As far as the file system is concerned, a .mdb IS just
"an ordinary file".

Every file is a "special file", as viewed by applications that understand
them. But the file system treats all files as basically the same. Even a
..mdb file is simply a single stream of bytes, to Windows. The tables are
completely unknown to Windows and Windows has no way of inherently dealing
with multiple simultaneous write access to .mdb files (or any other type of
file).

Pete


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