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Thank you Mark for your insight.

It was my assumption that in a large scale environment, multiple middle-ware
servers and one database server would suffice.  I am still working on trying
to iron out design issues... and certainly you have helped in making this
process a little easier.

thanks

Steve


"Mark Cashman" <mcashman@temporaldoorway.com> wrote in message
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> Hi, Steven!
>
> The whole point of multi-tier is to push business logic into the middle
> tier from the database server tier. This provides a higher level of DBMS
> independence and greater scalability. Generally you have n clients, n
> middle-tier machines and a single database server (you can leverage
> replication or SAN if you need higher reliability in the DB server).
>
> I hope this helps. There are a variety of good books on the subject,
> which are probably worth a look.
>
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