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  1. Posted

    Backup/Restore when the DB is under heavy load needs a lot more time. Having that said, I´d expect 10 GB to be backup/restored within a few minutes. So 45 min are worth looking where the time goes to. Is the load that heavy? Goes the backup to the same disks where the database files are located? Maybe a shortage of memory?

    Maybe maintenace plans are worth looking: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/maintenance-plans/create-a-maintenance-plan?view=sql-server-ver16

  2. Posted

    If or if not you want to make money selling your product, depends solely on you. Do you need the money? Are you willing to build up everything necessary for running a business thet sells software? Programming is one thing, but dealing with customers, supporting them, answering the same question over and over again, building up a web site with info, docs and much more, is the other thing. The software you sell is the top of an iceberg only. And in times of social media and everyone feeling the urge to articulate, it is mandatory to avoid bad custommer feedback.

     

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    What is it that you wish you would have known then?

    Nice idea. :- )

    - Avoid the mantra "Go big or go home". Instead grow controlled and controllable.

    - Whatever you do, keep in mind, that technology changes quickly and stay up to date.

    - Legacy software is a nightmare.

    - Always double: prices, estimations, schedules.

    - Establish a team, find coworkers. They will help you in hard times.

     

    HTH Bernd

     

  4. Posted

    23 hours ago, dummzeuch said:

    I guess that comes from some other tool that does it. Since I haven't really an idea what it means, could you please elaborate? Or maybe point to a video that shows how it works in this other tool?

    No, no tool I know of. But I often wanted, when editing, to have a window where - without any interaction from my side - in formation about the context I am in, is shown. Some of this is already avail, but cluttered around:

    - current method/class

    - type definition

    - qs metrics (already initalized, created, defined, ..., code metrics)

    - hints (remember to free, ...)

    - references inside, outside

     

    One more thing, I valued much, long ago (MicroFocus Cobol Debugger :- ) The ability to restrict the level of step into when using F7.

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  9. Posted

    First advice: Measure. Without measurement, you are blind.

    NexusQA has a method profiler, that shows you, what methods are called, how many times and how much time is spent.

    Once you have this data, you can identify bottlenecks.

    Besides this: What usually increases performance a lot:

    - sorting and filtering done not at the client but on server side

    - caching data

    - avoiding disk access

     

  14. Posted

    Cleaned up the search path and because I had some spare time updated al my components. And now the compile finishes without error. So , no, there is AFAIK no length problem with BrccCompile.

    Unforunately I have no idea, what was the cure. :- (

  15. Posted

    BrccCompile fails with ..\..\images\GXIcons.rc : error : Error Could not open input file C:\RAD_Lib\GExperts\Projects\DelphiXx110Alexandria\FN
    C.RC

     

    This is misleading error, because there is no FNC.RC. Is there a limitation for the -ic<path> with BrccCompile? My path is quite long and this is the only explanation I find, why thos error could occur.

    Any idea, how I can work around this?

     

    Or am I missing something?

     

    Thanks fpr every hint!

  17. Posted

    The resource is there. The form can be created in the IDE and at runtime, except sometimes.

     

    But anyway, I will work around the TOpenDialog and willl wait what will happen.

  18. Posted

    I have information from a customer that the message "EResNotFound Ressource PREVIEWGLYPH not found" is sometimes thrown as an exception when creating a form. But this is not reproducible and not always/often/with every user. I have not had this with any other customers. The software is operated via terminal server on several TS with load balancing. Doesn't depend on the actual TS either.

    I don't understand how the message can come up at all. The resource is there or not. AFAIK the ressource belongs to TopenPicDialog, if this helps.

    Thanks for any hints!

  20. Posted

    - manually rebuild latest GExperts

    - Start D11.1

    - show GExperts config dialog + close with ok

    - in the Delphi code editor click right mouse for popup menu

     

    --> there is a bit of delay and then Delphi exits without any message or error

     

    tx!

  21. Posted

    ChatGPT does not _understand_ the question, nor does it _understand_ its own answer. ChatGPT tries to detect some kind of pattern, the question fits in and generates an answer, again dpending of patterns. While ChatGPT  is astonishingly good at both, patterns tend to have kind of grey areas where information is not exakt or not right. So it is quite easy to make ChatGPT give complete nonsense answers. So both Nietzsche as well as Beethoven are named as Austrian people. Restricting the question to living Austrians is funny enough: 

    Tell me some famous Austrian people.

Some famous people who are from Austria include:

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (composer)
    Arnold Schwarzenegger (actor and politician)
    Sigmund Freud (psychologist)
    Gustav Klimt (artist)
    Friedrich Nietzsche (philosopher)
    Ludwig van Beethoven (composer)
    Adolf Hitler (politician)
    Josef Hoffmann (architect and designer)
    Franz Schubert (composer)
    Maria von Trapp (singing family made famous by the movie "The Sound of Music")

Bernd Maierhofer
Living ones!

Sure, here are some famous living Austrians:

    Thomas Klestil (former President of Austria)
    Gerard Mortier (opera director)
    Elfriede Jelinek (Nobel Prize-winning author)
    Michael Haneke (film director)
    Helmut Marko (Formula 1 racing official)
    Andreas Maislinger (founder of the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service)
    Wolfgang Puck (chef and restaurateur)
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (alpine skier)
    Christina Aguilera (singer and actress)
    Alain Prost (Formula 1 racing driver)

    Thomas Klestil died in 2004. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe definintely is nor was an alpine skier. So here are 5 answers wrong.

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  25. Posted

    On 8/23/2022 at 4:38 PM, Bill Meyer said:

    Yes, I noticed that. But now considering also the issues offered in the article on Coding Horror. The opportunity to explore is the motivator, but between those warnings and the finite time I have for such things, I may simply pass.

    We now live in 2022 - the article dates back to 2004. Things have evolved in the meantime. Mormot is open source and does a good job. There are commercial products too, Aurelius to mention one, I personally know. There is a learning curve, but it´s worth.

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