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    Posted: 23 May 2005 at 5:05pm
I'm involved in the designing of an Intranet at work and we'd like to use some ASP Scripts (including some Web Wiz ones) to make the site more dynamic. We will have a maximum of 200-250 users accessing the site. I was hoping someone could throw light on how an MS Access database would cope under the strain.
 
I've read that Access starts to feel the strain when only a few users access these databases via ASP pages.
 
Is this just as true for a forum script where data is being added all the time, as it is for a news script where data is added once or twice a day? Or can a news script be viewed by more users without experiencing too many problems.
 
 


Edited by frazerc - 23 May 2005 at 5:07pm
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There are multiple discussion on that subject here. Generally try if at all possible to avoid Access, rather go with MSDE.
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It depends on how the server is setup. As mentioned before in several posts, Access strains under "concurrent connections" but otherwise will generally work fine.

My largest forum has over 16k members and currently has 15 active users showing although it has peaked at 160 (active users page) for 8 hours continuously. It is over 1 year old and has run with barely any hitches.Wink

Like michael said though, when the choice is available run SQL Server or the MSDE.


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With Access, a weekly compact and repair after a backup does a lot for maintaining performance levels.


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