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Re: Database query

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Subject: Re: Database query
From: Norman Palardy <npalardy at great-white-software dot com>
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 15:34:11 -0600
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On 7-Sep-07, at 3:25 PM, Bart Silverstrim wrote:

> Silly question...(do I ask any other? :-)
>
> What exactly makes a database "multiuser", according to the license?
>
> RB Standard has a single-user license.
>
> If you make an application that lets two or three people use a client
> program that connects over a socket to a server application, like  
> an RB
> web server made by the standard version and stores wiki-like  
> entries in
> the database...is it single user because it's only one database being
> used by one application, the server?  Or is it multiuser because
> multiple people are using (non-database equipped) clients to  
> communicate
> with the server application that does use the database?

Neither :)
Concurrency control of transactions is what determines if a database  
is multiuser or not.
SQLite is single user (only 1 transaction at a time) regardless of  
how many people are using it (including REALSQL Server)
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