Gustav Brock
gustav at cactus.dk
Tue Feb 10 08:16:28 CST 2004
Hi Jim Would you have any suggestions for how (up/down?) these settings could be changed? /gustav > What your probably bumping into is read locks on the LVPs (Long Value > Pages). Read locks allow multiple users to read long value data, but prevent > others from writing to it while others are reading. Starting with JET 3.0, > the persistence of read locks is determined by the currency of a record. So > a read lock on a long value page will remain until the user leaves that > record. There is an exception though; if the LVP contains multiple rows of > data JET should be releasing the lock before that. > Some things you might try: > 1. Change the Refresh Interval > 2. Change the Update Retry Interval > 3. Change the Number of Update Retries. > 4. Changing the Recycle LVP page setting > These above are all JET settings. And of course anything you can do to > get the user off the record faster would be better. Switching to Optimistic > locking (No Locks) with page locks or Pessimistic (Edited Record) with > Record Level locking might also help depending on the design of the app and > the typical patterns of usage.