[AccessD] Expert VB 2005 Business Objects; Lhotka - was RE: Access or SQL Server Express to web

I have to say I like this book.  This is the book that explains the CSLA
framework.  It is READABLE, it goes into just enough depth to explain the
topic at hand, it explains the pros and cons of different strategies and why
he chooses the strategies he chooses.  Really quite a nice read for someone
at my level to be able to start getting a handle on N tier, business
objects, DALs and all that.

Fascinating stuff on top of all that.  He discusses business objects being
passed between machines, and being able to modify the implementation using
config files so that you can move the layers onto dedicated machines if
necessary!  Pretty cool stuff.  I had always heard about this stuff but had
no idea how they did that.  Still don't, but at least I am grasping the
concepts now.

Recommended.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com 
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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of William Hindman
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 11:34 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access or SQL Server Express to web

...I know this will get your goat but we've had over 150 users in mdb
sourced pages simultaneously without a hick-up so far ...I'm in the process
of moving to SQL Server because the load will get much larger in the next
few months but so far, Drew has been right, Access mdbs can take a lot of
abuse on the web ...of course I'll freely admit that its read only and I
cache the hell out of it ...but still :)

...the web based apps all are hosted on shared win2K3 boxes w plenty of ram
and dedicated app spaces.

...the largest intranet based app never has more than ten users in it and
the average is probably less than five ...the servers are all Dell PE's w/
2GB ram and large Raid5 HDs running SBS2003 Premium R2 ...pretty vanilla but
I like vanilla in servers :)

...like I said, I cater to small business owners and tend to keep it simple
...something an ignorant lout like me can stay on top of :)

...btw, the MS ajax built into 3.5 works really well compared to that added
on to 2.0 ...its a very noticeable difference imnsho, especially in the
gridview ...the MS sponsored open-source 3.5 ajax controls toolkit version
on the other hand, still has some performance problems with some of the
controls ...two steps forward, one step back.

William