MSDE Performance Against Concurrent Access

Hello,
Can anybody tell me about your own experience using IIS
with MSDE as repository?
Would the concurrent access of the anonymous internet user
to the MSDE engine affect its performance if the
concurrent access reach more than 5 at a time?
Im planning to deploy an Intranet Application for
consultant office and Im affraid the MSDE to cause a
dregradation in performance if it gets more than 5
concurrent access.
Thx in Advance.
Mike.
hi Mike,
"Mike" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:7be701c4771f$40cdd7e0$a401280a@.phx.gbl...
> Hello,
> Can anybody tell me about your own experience using IIS
> with MSDE as repository?
> Would the concurrent access of the anonymous internet user
> to the MSDE engine affect its performance if the
> concurrent access reach more than 5 at a time?
> Im planning to deploy an Intranet Application for
> consultant office and Im affraid the MSDE to cause a
> dregradation in performance if it gets more than 5
> concurrent access.
> Thx in Advance.
> Mike.
you simply have to test, becouse no other project will be the same as your,
depending on the base schema, coding conventions, transactions lengths,
objects involved, data involved and so on...
usually it' said that MSDE can afford about 25 concurrent users, but this is
not a magic number, only a guess
Andrea Montanari (Microsoft MVP - SQL Server)
http://www.asql.biz/DbaMgr.shtmhttp://italy.mvps.org
DbaMgr2k ver 0.8.0 - DbaMgr ver 0.54.0
(my vb6+sql-dmo little try to provide MS MSDE 1.0 and MSDE 2000 a visual
interface)
-- remove DMO to reply
|||As Andrea said, there is no fixed number of users. It's like asking how many
orders can a fry cook work at the same time? It's a function of how
efficiently each order is processed. How fast is the CPU? How much RAM is
available to cache the data and procedures? How fast is the hard disk? How
much data is being shipped to and from the server? How efficient is the
query or update? A single application can bring a standard edition SQL
Server to its knees if you knew what to ask for. A thousand clients an hour
might not cause the MSDE engine to kick into governor mode. It all
depends...
hth
____________________________________
William (Bill) Vaughn
Author, Mentor, Consultant
Microsoft MVP
www.betav.com
Please reply only to the newsgroup so that others can benefit.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
__________________________________
"Andrea Montanari" <andrea.sqlDMO@.virgilio.it> wrote in message
news:2n21guFsegv1U1@.uni-berlin.de...
> hi Mike,
> "Mike" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
> news:7be701c4771f$40cdd7e0$a401280a@.phx.gbl...
> you simply have to test, becouse no other project will be the same as
your,
> depending on the base schema, coding conventions, transactions lengths,
> objects involved, data involved and so on...
> usually it' said that MSDE can afford about 25 concurrent users, but this
is
> not a magic number, only a guess
> --
> Andrea Montanari (Microsoft MVP - SQL Server)
> http://www.asql.biz/DbaMgr.shtmhttp://italy.mvps.org
> DbaMgr2k ver 0.8.0 - DbaMgr ver 0.54.0
> (my vb6+sql-dmo little try to provide MS MSDE 1.0 and MSDE 2000 a visual
> interface)
> -- remove DMO to reply
>

MSDE integration with VB. NET

I have VB. NET
I want to build SQL databases on my own PC using VB and
MSDE.
No matter how many ways I install it or passwords I use,
I just cannot get read/write access from witihn VB. I
have upsized the Northwind.mdb.
There seems to be a multidude or service packs for MSDE
and numerous ways of entering passwords.
Could osmeone please just give me a setp by step account
of installing MSDE (with all relevant switches and
passwords), getting a SQL instance on MSDE running and
visible on the manager, upsizing the access database
(with all relevant passwords - what the hell is a trusted
connection?), and then be able to create a view from the
Server Explorer in .NET.
I've been slaving over this for the past two days and
it's driving me nuts. Please help maintain my sanity.
Thanks
Guy
Hi ,
Following are the various parameters available for installing msde along
with examples:
Most installations of MSDE 2000 Release A are made using only these Setup
parameters:
Parameter Description
SAPWD="AStrongPassword" Specifies a strong password to be assigned to the
sa administrator login.
INSTANCENAME="InstanceName" Specifies the name of the instance. If
INSTANCENAME is not specified, Setup installs a default instance.
Other parameters often used to tailor an installation are:
Parameter Description
DISABLENETWORKPROTOCOLS=n Specifies whether the instance will accept
network connections from applications running on other computers. By
default, or if you specify DISABLENTWORKPROTOCOL=1, Setup configures the
instance to not accept network connections. Specify
DISABLENETWORKPROTOCOLS=0 to enable network connections.
SECURITYMODE=SQL Specifies that the instance be installed in Mixed Mode,
where the instance supports both Windows Authentication and SQL
Authentication logins.
DATADIR="data_folder_path" Specifies the folder where Setup installs the
system databases, error logs, and installation scripts. The value specified
for data_folder_path must end with a backslash (\). For a default instance,
Setup appends MSSQL\ to the value specified. For a named instance, Setup
appends MSSQL$InstanceName\, where InstanceName is the value specified with
the INSTANCENAME parameter. Setup builds three folders at the specified
location: a Data folder, a Log folder, and a Script folder.
TARGETDIR="executable_folder_path" Specifies the folder where Setup
installs the MSDE 2000 executable files. The value specified for
executable_folder_path must end with a backslash (\). For a default
instance, Setup appends MSSQL\Binn to the value specified. For a named
instance, Setup appends MSSQL$InstanceName\Binn, where InstanceName is the
value specified with the INSTANCENAME parameter.
When you use DISABLENETWORKPROTOCOLS=0 to enable network support for an
instance of MSDE 2000, applications connecting to the instance over a
network use Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC). All versions of
Windows supported for use with MSDE 2000 include a version of the MDAC
software that works with MSDE 2000 Release A.
* A trusted connection means the login used to login used to log on to the
machine is the same used by all the applications on the machine for any
authentication mechanism.
Hope this provides you with an answer
Girish sundaram
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

MSDE in Production environment

I have a burning, question, sorry if this has been asked already.

How does the licencing for MSDE work, do you need to "OWN" a valid MS SQL Server licence to use MSDE in production enviroment.

I have a legally purchased copy of Office 2000, which includes MSDE installer. If I want to install this on my webserver for example and run a forum off it (this one for example), the forum will be on the WWW. Will I need a seperate licence for MSDE ?

Please helpAll you will ever need to know is here:

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/msde/howtobuy/msdeuse.asp