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Issue 5.6

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More About Multi-User Applications

Issue: 5.6 (September/October 2007)
Author Bio: Paul Lefebvre is President and Chief Software Architect of LogicalVue Software.
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Article Length (in bytes): 5,489
Starting Page Number: 40
Article Number: 5614
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As we saw in issue 5.4, converting a single-user database for use with REAL SQL Server is a pretty easy task. But even though your application now works on a server, you still need to think about how it might be affected by having multiple users accessing it concurrently. If you've ignored this design problem then it's most likely that your application will exhibit some strange behaviors, such as other users being unable to use the system when someone is editing data or having changes made by one user appear to not be saved.

So, how do you deal with these issues?

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