From: Ellen K. 

Well... there used to be I think a maximum locks setting that defaulted to
10,000 and that caused problems for Microsoft Access...  Is that what
you're thinking of?

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 08:22:39 GMT, John Beckett
 wrote in message
:

>Ellen K.  wrote in message
>news::
>> I have no idea whether we can theoretically control locking, but I will
>> check it out.
>
>I'm dimly recalling that people used to find a setting on the NetWare
>computer that controlled some aspect of the database. Perhaps it was a
>timeout value? I recall about disabling optimistic locking, but that
>sounds like something you would do in the db app itself - or maybe not,
>perhaps it is an option on the NetWare server?
>
>Very vague, sorry, and probably out-of-date.
>
>John

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