Talking databases

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Nathan Lehman (Mon, 9 Jan 2006 15:55:27 -0500):

>             Hello all.  Here's my situation: We have two databases, one
> real and one is for testing purposes (although the two databases do run
> on the same file server).  Is it possible to pass information between
> the two in real-time?
> Now I know the perfect solution of the two databases being able to look
> up information from each other in real-time is probably not an option.
[...]
> I guess the
> easiest/only way I can think of is to export the data from both
> databases and import them into the opposite databases.  This would have
> to be scheduled and wouldn't be real-time but it is the best I can come
> up with.  Any help/suggestions would be appreciated.

If these files are to contain the same data in real-time, what is
the difference between the "real" one and the "test" one?

> Oh, by the way, we run filePro 5.0.14 on a novell server with lots of
> little windows 2000/xp clients.

If this were Unix, I was going to suggest simply symlinking the files.

Can you explain how the "real" and "test" files are different, yet are
to contain the same data in real-time?

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