Advantage Database Server

Bill Schuler (ADS)

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Jul 27, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/27/00

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We have been made aware that promotional CD, we have sent out in our last
mailer and gave away in San Diego this year, did have a 5-user limit on the
Advantage Local Server. It was intended to have been the unlimited version
of the Advantage Local Server. Our Web site does offer the unlimited
version including full source code to the VCL. If you have received one of
the promotional CD's or if you have an older version of our software that
has the 5-user limit on it, please visit our Web site and download the
latest verison.

I would like to thank Bob B. for making us aware of this mistake. I do not
have Bob's last name.

If you have any question please send me an email and I will be happy to help
you.

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Bill Schuler
Database Products
North American Sales Manager
Phone (800)235-7576 ext. 6051
(208)322-7575 ext. 6051
Fax (208)327-5006
bi...@extendsys.com
5777 N. Meeker Ave.
Boise, ID 83711
http://www.advantagedatabase.com
http://solutions.advantagedatabase.com

Mike

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Jul 27, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/27/00

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Got this on your server:

HTTP/1.0 500 Server Error (No more connections can be made to this remote
computer at this time because there are already as many connections as the
computer can accept. )

Bill Schuler (ADS)

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Jul 28, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/28/00

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Mike did you get this error when you first went to the Advantage link or
when you clicked to download the software?

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Bill Schuler
Database Products
North American Sales Manager
Phone (800)235-7576 ext. 6051
(208)322-7575 ext. 6051
Fax (208)327-5006
bi...@extendsys.com
5777 N. Meeker Ave.
Boise, ID 83711
http://www.advantagedatabase.com
http://solutions.advantagedatabase.com

Mike wrote in message ...

Mike

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Jul 28, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/28/00

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When I first went there. I went later and it was fine. When you use the
local server, how do you make sure the file gets flushed? I have a lot of
corruption with Paradox and I would consider using the local server. Also
is it totally free?

Bill Schuler (ADS)

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Jul 31, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/31/00

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Mike wrote in message ...

> When you use the
>local server, how do you make sure the file gets flushed? I have a lot of
>corruption with Paradox and I would consider using the local server. Also
>is it totally free?
>
>

Mike,
I will start with the "Free" question. Yes the local server is 100% free.
This means we will give it to you free and you are able to distribute the
local server royality free. We hope that you will see how easy it is to use
our software and when you do have a need for Client/Server you will come
back to us and purchase our Client/Server version.

For the flush question I pulled this right out of our help file. If you
need more information please let me know.

Local File Flush Frequency

Default = 20000 milliseconds (20 seconds). Range = 0 milliseconds - no
upper limit.

Windows 95, 98, NT, and 2000 do not always commit (flush) to disk updates
made to files opened on the local computer in a timely manner. This Local
File Flush Frequency value determines how often updates to files on local
hard drives are forcibly flushed to disk by an Advantage background local
server thread. This value does not have any effect on files opened on remote
drives, since the Windows operating systems seems to flush updates to disk
on remote files in a timely manner. As this flush time interval decreases,
the committing of local file updates occurs more often, which increases data
stability (in cases where the client computer crashes), but decreases
application performance. Setting this value to zero disables the forcible
flush to disk functionality.

If you wish to change the default you will find the setting in the
adslocal.cfg.

; Local File Flush Frequency (in milliseconds)
; Default = 20000 ms (20 seconds); Range = 0 ms - No upper limit
FLUSH_FREQUENCY=20000

Mike

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Jul 31, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/31/00

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Cool. I will definetly have to look into using this.

Mike

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Jul 31, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/31/00

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Also, does it force a flush when you close a database file?

Bill Schuler (ADS)

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Jul 31, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/31/00

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Yes, is there any other answer? :-)

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Bill Schuler
Database Products
North American Sales Manager
Phone (800)235-7576 ext. 6051
(208)322-7575 ext. 6051
Fax (208)327-5006
bi...@extendsys.com
5777 N. Meeker Ave.
Boise, ID 83711
http://www.advantagedatabase.com
http://solutions.advantagedatabase.com

Mike wrote in message ...

Mike

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Aug 2, 2000, 3:00:00 AM8/2/00

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After looking at this with ntfilemon from sysinternals, it does not look
like you DO flush when the file is closed. Could you fix this?