Hi!
About write-behind caching: I do not have W98 under hands to check this out. Just search in the "Control Panel->System", somewhere in the properties of drives etc. - it is in different places under different OS.
>Hi Vlad,
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>I guess I could put the Flush after the critical table updtes. I was a little worried about slowing the system down too much but a little slowness is better than losing data.
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>Also, I could not find the switch for the write-behind buffering. Could you be a bit more specific. Is there any documentation on that?
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>Thanks, ken
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>>Use FLUSH command for this after END transaction (or tabbleupdate() if you do not have a transaction).
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>>In addition, check system settings - there is an option to switch off write-behind buffering. This will slow down the system a bit, but data writing will be much better.
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>>This also might be a network issue - could not help you here much...
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>>>I'm running a system on a small W98 Peer-to-Peer network (4 workstations). Not an ideal but that is what I have to work with. Thing is on two computers I have been losing data from buffered views. I haven't figured out why but think that may be a temporary or partial solution would be to flush the data to disk more often than the automatic flushing (5 minutes?)
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>>>Can anyone give me ideas on this?
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>>>TIA,
>>>Ken
Vlad Grynchyshyn, Project Manager, MCP
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