I was taking issue with the blanket statement about web apps. Its pretty clear now that that wasn't really what you were getting at. I happen to think we pretty much agree with each other re: your clarification. Stephen Kellett -- C++/Java/Win NT/Unix variants Memory leaks/corruptions/performance/system problems. UK based. Problems with RSI/WRULD? Contact me for advice.

Sounds wierd I know but I know I'm getting better when I can still look at my old code and laugh at what I wrote. ATL Student :rolleyes:

G'day Tomasz, Thanks for that. It worked a treat! Steve

There's a link on the page I mentioned earlier. Wanna buy the EH? :-) $16,000 and you have to come get it.

Yep - it's definitely the forums that are the slow point. Uwe did an excellent job of getting the to where they are today but the unexpected visitor load took us a little by surprise, so they are being rewritten. Having the forums on another server won't really help. The forums account for probably 90% of the load, so what we are doing is moving to an SQLServer cluster while reworking the algorithms that do the threading. It's a bit of a balancing act between keeping the site cruising along while moving to .NET while at the same time ensuring we keep the current systems up to the demand. cheers, Chris Maunder

what do you mean by other browsers .... i thought everyone is using only IE5.5+ ... the dumb browser is gone ... ;P Last month's log files on some ;) sites we serve, gives a 91% to IE. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Memory leaks is the price we pay \0 01234567890123456789012345678901234

Thanks for that Mathan. I was browsing the MSDN help & MS web sites last night and ended up printing off a zillion topics on DB access. I'm just puring my way through the pros and cons of the various options today. I'll check out the OLEDB stuff later. Thanks again, Steve -------------------------------------- Steve Driessens

There are plenty of articles on doing this in MSDN magazine. Also if you search for 'under the hood' in msdev help you will find articles by JOhn Robbins, Matt Pietrek etc on doing this sort of thing. Setting exception handlers that then show you the call stack. Search for SuperASSERT written by John Robbins, which shows you the stack. MFC also provides a AfxDumpStack(). Win32 provides StackWalk(), there was a similar function in Win16.

Hey Steve - great to see another aussie on board! Thanks for your support. ================== The original message was: A great site Chris! I hope to 'do my bit' and contribute an article or two in the not too distant future. Steve Driessens Resort Software Pty. Ltd. Brisbane, Australia