by icdev » Tue Jun 15, 2010 9:34 am
We have a mixed environment at present, with a vpme application running our main database, pos and backoffice functions, web site )ecommerce) running a mixture of perl, mysql and many php backend routines to access the vfp live data to hook to the mysql server - I'm trying to clean it up a bit, not to mention our database size growing nicely - some files approx 1gb.
It is not a big deal to install the mysql odbc on each workstation, just looking at the options.
We have about 10 workstations accessing the vpme application, 11-12 if you count the php applications accessing the live data, by means of an odbtp application running on the linux server box. Our servers, linux etc are located in-house.
btw, it is nice to see you mix it up with linux, and php. It's a good path (imo).
Steve Graham