From: Ellen K. 

The "database" is a bunch of .DBF files, we have something called
"Advantage Database Server" that allows us to address the data
using (very basic) SQL.

Serialized, very interesting... we just learned that ADS actually WRITES TO
DISK AS A TEMP TABLE the result of any query that includes a join. (!)

I don't actually know what a semaphore is in this context but a few days
ago the guys who were monitoring it did say something about semaphore bytes
getting corrupted.

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 20:43:16 -0500, "Tony Ingenoso"
 wrote in message :

>Less internal semaphore locking maybe?
>
>If accesses were somewhat limited in origin and serialized
>by the initiator's particular behavior anyway, a MT database
>wouldn't buy anything at all.
>
>Injecting MT overheads into what was previously a serialized
>operation usually results in performance loss.
>
>"Ellen K."  wrote in message
>news:m1nv01dvk03igv1a6k11kunudtgop5kiae{at}4ax.com...
>> Apparently turning off multi-threading in Novell greatly improves the
>> performance of the legacy database.   Any theories as to why this should
>> be so?
>

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