Charlotte Foust
cfoust at infostatsystems.com
Wed Aug 17 13:56:28 CDT 2005
True, but since drilling rigs usually have only one or possibly two laptops running our software, and since the laptops are somewhat associated with the shift, it doesn't work that way for us. My point was that it isn't an issue for everyone. We make that a procedural issue for our clients rather than trying to outwit them. Charlotte Foust -----Original Message----- From: John W. Colby [mailto:jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 10:13 AM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: RE: [AccessD] How to Manage Maintenance Mode - Auto shutdown The problem with that method is that if anyone leaves their FE open overnight (always on) the task can never run. The only alternative that I know of is to have a form always open in every FE, running a timer. The timer tick can do one of several things, including just checking a table for a shutdown flag and informing the user that a shutdown will occur etc. In the end though the form and its timer has to do the shutdown. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause: http://folding.stanford.edu/ -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 1:00 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: RE: [AccessD] How to Manage Maintenance Mode - Auto shutdown We generally don't have polite automatic shutdowns, since our software could run for hours waiting for someone to finish a task and enter the data associated with it. If we have something along those lines (or we need to compact/repair the front end) we set normally up the code to run when it can get an exclusive lock on the database. That just means that when it thinks it should do this, as when the user is closing down, it checks to see whether it can. The same checks will happen on any machine, so the last one to close down wins the prize of running the maintenance routines. What specific kinds of maintenance were you going to run? Charlotte Foust -----Original Message----- From: Mark Breen [mailto:marklbreen at gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 9:37 AM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: [AccessD] How to Manage Maintenance Mode - Auto shutdown Hello Group, I have an app uses MS SQL 2000 Server as it's backend database. I want to run some maintenance routines on the db and they require that I switch the db into single user mode. This is easily done and once I have it in Single User Mode, it is easy to kick off the maintenance routines. My question is what ways you may have handled a polite automatic shutdown of the application in your worlds. Technically, I do not have to shut down my app, I could just break the connection to SQL server, but I think that I may as well shut down the entire app. I could use timers, and I could insert 'activity' updates and only shut down the FE app when the app is not being used. So for example, I could update a database field and when the field has not been used for more than 30 minutes I can assume that it is in-active. This would allow me to auto shut down the app, but I would like to leave some message behind me to let the user know where their app went rather than just killing it! I could also break the connection to the db, then display a message box saying the db has been shutdown and allow the user to click OK to continue. I am not seeking detailed technical help here, more philosophically how you guys handle this type of situation. Any thoughts or comments are appreciated, I hope you and your family are all well, Mark Breen -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com