[ic] One Database, many Catalogs - Global Database

Stefan Hornburg Racke interchange-users@lists.akopia.com
Mon Jul 30 03:37:01 2001


minivend@hq.com.au writes:

> Hi,
> I would like to create a single database available to many catalogs, (like a
> system wide user database)
> 
> I have put the following in the minivend.cfg file, and placed the data files
> in the minivend folder.
> #Global databases
> Database            orp_user     orp_user.txt        TAB
> Database            orp_user     WRITE_ALWAYS  1
> 
> However when I restarted the server and tried to read the database it tries
> to read a file from the catalog's product directory that it was requested
> from.
> 
> I want a central database not databases under each catalog.
> 
> Can anyone tell me how this is supposed to work and if possible provide
> config examples......

I suggest to use a SQL database.

Ciao
        Racke

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