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Re: realtime database????
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 05:42:11PM -0400, Birgitt Funk wrote:
> ****** message to minivend-users from Birgitt Funk <birgitt@minivend.com> ******
I believe that Sybase (in particular) is designed for
the on-again/off-again synchronization.
cfm
> >
> > We're working on an in-store internet/Point of sale sever. We want to be able to use the same database as we do in the actual store as we do online, and have each system update the database on the fly so that both the in store system and the web site are up to date all the time.
> >
>
> I was wondering about that one too a bit a long time ago. Other than
> getting your POS-PC being an 24h/7d online web-server at the same time
> and using an inventory system for your POS that uses the MV product.asc
> or inventory.asc file as the POS-database, I could not imagine how that
> would be done. (May be mirroring on an hourly basis your inventory
> database to the online mv/web-server and upgrading the product.asc
> file hourly. Or if your in-store POS-PC is already the minivend/web
> server online, then finding a way to read your inventory database from
> your POS-program into MySQL constantly and use MV with MySQL.
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