[AccessD] Connections and Performance

Ervin Brindza viner at EUnet.yu
Mon Feb 5 02:31:44 CST 2007


Dan,
how about using temporary tables for adding new records and for reporting?
Ervin
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Waters" <dwaters at usinternet.com>
To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'" 
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Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 5:12 AM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Connections and Performance


> Drew,
>
> I read this somewhere - either in MS documentation or in a book where I
> believe the author.
>
> Here's the reason I was asking:
>
> At a certain customer site, they experienced a dramatic performance 
> slowdown
> at a time when about 10 people were logged on concurrently.  Each client 
> PC
> has it's own FE.  I know that they open the system and leave the process
> screens open, all of which are bound.  I want to suggest that they 
> remember
> to close the process screens so that just the main screen is open, which 
> is
> not bound.  This way a fewer number of connections are being used at any 
> one
> time and performance would probably be acceptable.  This particular
> customer, I believe, does not have a very good network, so that is part of
> the problem.  But that's unlikely to get improved, so I wanted to provide 
> at
> least a partial solution, hence my question.
>
> I've also heard that a connection is made not based on whether a form is
> open and bound, but on whether or not there is data traffic between to and
> from a table, which only takes a small part of a second.
>
> So what causes the performance slowdown when only 10 client PC's are 
> logged
> on, and what could be done to improve this?
>
> Dan Waters
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Drew Wutka
> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 9:26 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Connections and Performance
>
> Where are you getting these numbers.  Access can have up to 255 
> connections.
>
> Drew
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Waters [mailto:dwaters at usinternet.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 8:45 AM
> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Connections and Performance
>
> Access has the potential for 8 simultaneous connections, but 3 of them are
> reserved for the system's use.  That leaves five for users.
>
> Dan Waters
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of JWColby
> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 8:02 AM
> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Connections and Performance
>
>>But, the connection limit for one BE is 5 FE's.
>
> What does this mean?  I have never heard of any such thing.
>
>
> John W. Colby
> Colby Consulting
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Dan Waters
> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 8:58 AM
> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> Subject: [AccessD] Connections and Performance
>
> I've read several times that maintaining a connection between a FE and a 
> BE
> will increase the performance of the FE because it doesn't need to 
> reconnect
> before transferring data.  The connection here would be a bound form
> connected by a table link to a table in the BE.
>
> But, the connection limit for one BE is 5 FE's.  So, will maintaining
> connections on more than 5 FE's reduce performance?  Seems logical, but I
> was wondering if this is correct or is there more to it?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Dan Waters
>
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