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- From: caughey@engr.UVic.CA (Dave Caughey)
- Subject: Wide-Area-Network Performance Questions
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.003246.903@sol.UVic.CA>
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- Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 00:32:46 GMT
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- If one were to consider replacing a ver 5.1C 386-based standalone
- database with a ver 6.0 SparcIPX-based RDBMS and DOS-based clients at
- both local Ethernet sites as well as at remote sites (over 14.4kbs
- phone lines), could anyone give some hints regarding the following:
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- 1. What sort of performance difference can be expected in running
- a client (i.e., SQL*Forms and SQL*Reportwriter) over local Ethernet
- vs modem?
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- 2. Is client Forms and Reports performance generally acceptable
- over Ethernet?
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- 3. How crucial is the Forms design to performance (i.e., how much
- traffic can be eliminated through correct design? -- this is
- obviously a concern for the remote sites)
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- 4. What about performance of the same Forms and Reports on a
- stand-alone Sun system (i.e., buy client tools for Sparc and use
- telnet sessions from DOS sites) versus the Ethernet-based client/server
- as described above?
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- 4. How painful is the conversion from
- a) Forms 2.3 to 3.0 on DOS?
- b) DOS Forms 2.3 to Sun Forms 2.3 or 3.0?
- c) DOS Reports to Sun Reports?
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- Thanks,
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- ___________________________________________________________________________
- Dave Caughey Dept. of Elec. & Comp. Engineering
- caughey@sirius.uvic.ca P.O. Box 3055
- University of Victoria
- "Ten million lemmings can't be wrong" Victoria, B.C., CANADA V8W 3P6
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