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Test Director Database Problems

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Topic: Test Director Database Problems
Posted By: Raksh*t_02
Subject: Test Director Database Problems
Date Posted: 02May2007 at 10:46pm
You are using MS-Access as the database, I presume?

We had terrible trouble when we started using TD as we used this setup for 4/5 people.

We lost/corrupted a day's data (some data was gone altogether, some tests were appearing under the wrong subjects, some steps under the wrong tests etc).

I said, "This is an Access problem - its not scaleable, we have to change".

I was overruled by people who said they had seen Access supporting 25/30 people, so we started from scratch again with Access. (Turned out that the BDE engine TD relies on puts FAR more strain on Access than the average client/server user).

Another day went by and exactly the same loss/corruption occurred - they listened second time around! 

So, we moved to using Oracle on Solaris and never had a moment's trouble with it again. (I'd imagine SQL Server would be similar).

You have to use a proper database for this task - Access is a toy...


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