Re: Any suggestions for setting up Filemaker Pro?

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From: Brian Schipper
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 21:28

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davids@gardener.lanl.gov (David Simmons) writes:

>Be VERY Careful of setting up a FM Pro database across a network.
>Small abberations in your network can cause catasrophic data losses.
>Claris' suggestion is to have a dedicated server for FM Pro [sic]. I don't
>know about you, but we didn't want to shell out for a Mac *just* for
>FM Pro.  In my experience, and I am only one datapoint, FM Pro is
>NOT very stable over a shared network, especially if multiple users
>are sharing the file simultaneously.

Unfortunately, it's very difficult for a database server on the mac to
be stable when someone is also using the machine to run other applications,
especially since the memory space is unprotected and any other program
running on the machine can write into the server's memory partition.

Unlike some multiuser database programs, FileMaker does not require
that you dedicate a machine to be a server, but doing so can help
improve performance and reliability.

Brian
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From: skip@claris.com (Brian Schipper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
Subject: Re: Any suggestions for setting up Filemaker Pro?
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Date: 12 Aug 92 21:28:25 GMT
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