2008/5/11, Klaus D. Witzel <klaus.witzel at cobss.com>:
> On Sat, 10 May 2008 19:45:57 +0200, Rob Rothwell wrote:
>
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I was just wondering if anyone knew what work would be required to provide
> a
> > threaded ODBC connection in Squeak similar to what is available for
> > VisualWorks or Smalltalk/X.  The ability to not freeze the VM while
> running
> > a query would be very useful for me, but I don't even know where to start.
> >
>
>  Out of curiosity, what would it be that you intend to let the users do
> while longish queries are tickling the db?

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Cheers
Philippe

>  I ask with this background in mind: over several years I headed a team of
> developers who produced 1.5 releases/year of a
> (fat+GUI)client<->(shared+fast)db server app with between 6
> and 60 GB data etc, 50+ installation sites (institutions with their own db
> server) and 100+ users, with 98% of the db data being updated over night
> (incrementally). We brought down the app's db response time from minutes to
> seconds but still never found any reason for using non-blocking queries,
> because nothing much was there that could have been done by the user in the
> meantime.
>
>  Do you just want to see non-freezing queries running or have some other
> reason for that need?
>
>  /Klaus
>
>
>
> > Or, is it a bigger issue than just ODBC, something buried deep within the
> VM
> > and/or the FFI?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Rob
> >
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