[WEB4LIB] Re: MS-Access database - for archives

Raymond Wood raywood at magma.ca
Thu Aug 23 19:49:24 EDT 2001


On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 09:47:20AM -0700, Karen Harker imagined:
> I've been trying to find the same thing out.  I did create one, but it
> seemed so complex that I was worried about its scalability...would it
> break-down under heavy load?  

All anecdotal evidence I've ever encountered from other web developers
suggests that Access simply does not scale.  This begs the question at
what point does it begin to fail?  This I do not know from personal
experience, but this article may shed further light on this point:
  http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-07-27-006-20-RV-SW

Raymond
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