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Re: Are threads bad? - was: Future of Pypy?

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Subject Re: Are threads bad? - was: Future of Pypy?
Date Wed, 25 Feb 2015 17:16:36 +0000
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On 25/02/2015 17:00, Ian Kelly wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 9:37 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> On 25/02/2015 06:02, Ian Kelly wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Is the name of that database program "Microsoft Access" perchance?
>>>
>>
>> Are you referring to the GUI, the underlying database engine, both, or what?
>
> The engine. In theory it supports concurrent access. In practice, it
> seems that access is frequently blocked by locks generated by some
> other user who was working on it hours ago and is now out of the
> office. Not to mention the times when the lock file gets so badly
> corrupted that the resolution is to just delete it.
>
> I haven't used it in some time though, so maybe it's gotten better.
>

IIRC the underlying JET engine was replaced by SQL Server years ago. 
Maybe not the best technlogy in the world, but you'd be hard pushed to 
do worse than JET :)

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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