I've put in the openfiles /disconnect /a * into the batch files.
Are there any drawbacks to that? Now that I think about it, only 1 or 2 users actually add records, the rest just edit them.
--- On Tue, 4/29/08, Alan Bourke <alanpbourke (AT) fastmail .D.O.T fm> wrote:
> From: Alan Bourke <alanpbourke@fastmail.fm>
> Subject: Re: How would you fix this?
> To: profox (AT) leafe .D.O.T com
> Date: Tuesday, April 29, 2008, 12:30 PM
> On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:59:54 -0700 (PDT), "Michael
> Madigan"
> <mmadi10699@yahoo.com> said:
> > Users are leaving their programs open
> > overnight and therefore the batch overnight programs
> can't run because
> > they can't get exclusive use of the databases.
>
> To my mind the only tidy way to do this and not risk
> database corruption
> is user education. I would go down the route of doing a NET
> FILE >
> files.txt every night on the server which will show what
> users left the
> application open, then present that to management every day
> until the
> perps wise up!
> --
> Alan Bourke
> alanpbourke (AT) fastmail .D.O.T fm
>
>
>
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