Lawrence Fox

Given two Win2K servers--ServerA and ServerB--is there a tool out there that will allow me to compare the registries of the two servers and list the differences between the two, e.g., keys with different settings, keys that exist in one, but not the other, etc. (I assume that I'd have to export the data from the two different servers and import it into the tool in some fashion...)

Database is DataEase. It doesn't use ODBC. The tests were done on the SAME PC, not different ones. IOW, "Dave's PC" when searching on DAVE's hard drive is fast, but Dave's PC's when searching on the server is slow. (Same behaviour noted on several other machines). Why do I get no noticeable speed degradation on a different network at a different location?

I'm not sure how to phrase the topic, but here's what's happening. My client has a Win2K server and Win2K workstations, 100 Mbps network, switched at the server and a RAID (mirrored) in the server. When I put a copy of their database on a local hard drive and query it, it takes about 10 seconds to go through 400,000+ records and return the recordset. When I put the database on the server, it takes 5 minutes. A colleague with a simiilar setup ran the tests--and got response times of around 10-15 seconds, so I'm sure it some kind of setup issue on either the server or the workstations, but I'm darned if I can figure it out. We have turned off virus checking (McAfee) on the data folders and there's no compression being used on the server. No change in the timing was noted. Op locks are turned off on the server as well. As a related issue (and I don't know if this is a red herring or if it'll ring some bells), I used Explorer to open a folder on the server, highlighted all 640 files (totalling 330meg) in the folder and the pressed DEL. There was a significant delay until the "deleting" animation showed up. All suggestions gratefully accepted....thanks