een Request and Response...
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Have you thought about maybe some sort of messaging system where queries
are queued up waiting to be processed, and then the results emailed to the
user maybe as a PDF...?
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Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net
I understand your concerns Mark. And you are right. I think i have to take
this up with management. Some of this does not really make sens in the web
world.
Users select a combination of data and we calculate what the asked for on
the DB server, then return the data.
Users are prompted with a pop up window with an estimation of the time the
computation will take. As i said earlier, we are working in the scientific
community. Users previously got an FTP link to the data and dowloaded. Now,
progress mean, the data can be streamed to them. The data is highly
compressable, so dowload is not a problem.
But i understand we need to review the architecture. And again, computation
has been gratly optimised on the DB server.
Cheers
Smith