To Cable, or Not to Cable
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@dashrender said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
@eddiejennings said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
@dafyre said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
@scottalanmiller said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
@dbeato said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
The only thing I would not run over wifi is VoIP phones, not because of security but stability on the network.
I'd be hesitant to do SAN or database connections over Wifi, too
Can't speak to SAN over WiFi, but databases over Wifi will suck big time -- even if your wifi is reliable.
We have an accountant that comes in every payday to do tasks in Sage. It was decreed she will work in X room on a laptop. I made sure I had a cable that would reach the nearest drop. Just imagine talking to the PervasiveSQL Sage database over wifi.
Ug, does the DB actually get transferred to the endpoint, like QB?
I've never dealt with Quickbooks, but to my knowledge, Sage talks to the DB that lives on a mapped drive, so I don't think any DB files are transferred to the individual workstations.
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@dashrender said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
@eddiejennings said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
@dafyre said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
@scottalanmiller said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
@dbeato said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
The only thing I would not run over wifi is VoIP phones, not because of security but stability on the network.
I'd be hesitant to do SAN or database connections over Wifi, too
Can't speak to SAN over WiFi, but databases over Wifi will suck big time -- even if your wifi is reliable.
We have an accountant that comes in every payday to do tasks in Sage. It was decreed she will work in X room on a laptop. I made sure I had a cable that would reach the nearest drop. Just imagine talking to the PervasiveSQL Sage database over wifi.
Ug, does the DB actually get transferred to the endpoint, like QB?
I think so.
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@eddiejennings said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
@dashrender said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
@eddiejennings said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
@dafyre said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
@scottalanmiller said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
@dbeato said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
The only thing I would not run over wifi is VoIP phones, not because of security but stability on the network.
I'd be hesitant to do SAN or database connections over Wifi, too
Can't speak to SAN over WiFi, but databases over Wifi will suck big time -- even if your wifi is reliable.
We have an accountant that comes in every payday to do tasks in Sage. It was decreed she will work in X room on a laptop. I made sure I had a cable that would reach the nearest drop. Just imagine talking to the PervasiveSQL Sage database over wifi.
Ug, does the DB actually get transferred to the endpoint, like QB?
I've never dealt with Quickbooks, but to my knowledge, Sage talks to the DB that lives on a mapped drive, so I don't think any DB files are transferred to the individual workstations.
Actually, that's exactly what's happening and what Dash meant. A "real" DB connection is via a DB protocol, never via a mapped drive.
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@scottalanmiller said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
@eddiejennings said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
@dashrender said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
@eddiejennings said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
@dafyre said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
@scottalanmiller said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
@dbeato said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
The only thing I would not run over wifi is VoIP phones, not because of security but stability on the network.
I'd be hesitant to do SAN or database connections over Wifi, too
Can't speak to SAN over WiFi, but databases over Wifi will suck big time -- even if your wifi is reliable.
We have an accountant that comes in every payday to do tasks in Sage. It was decreed she will work in X room on a laptop. I made sure I had a cable that would reach the nearest drop. Just imagine talking to the PervasiveSQL Sage database over wifi.
Ug, does the DB actually get transferred to the endpoint, like QB?
I've never dealt with Quickbooks, but to my knowledge, Sage talks to the DB that lives on a mapped drive, so I don't think any DB files are transferred to the individual workstations.
Actually, that's exactly what's happening and what Dash meant. A "real" DB connection is via a DB protocol, never via a mapped drive.
Exactly.
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Or to put it into really tech terms, it's a shared database file, a system lacking a DBMS.
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Learn something new and spectacular about Sage every day.
But on a positive note, I learn correct terminology
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@eddiejennings said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
Learn something new and spectacular about Sage every day.
But on a positive note, I learn correct terminology
Is it a surprise that it is crap?
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@scottalanmiller said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
@eddiejennings said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
Learn something new and spectacular about Sage every day.
But on a positive note, I learn correct terminology
Is it a surprise that it is crap?
Nope. Just seeing learning more about exactly why it's crap.
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@eddiejennings said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
Learn something new and spectacular about Sage every day.
But on a positive note, I learn correct terminology
How old is your sage install?
We have Business Works (formally Business Works Gold). I'm pretty sure they have moved onto a real DB connection. They use a Pervasive DB.
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Business class databases always have a database server. Even simple websites like a WordPress site use a real RDBMS. Basically, Sage and QB don't see themselves in the same category, or even remotely close, with a little hobby blog site.
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Which, by extension, tells you a lot about what your accounting and financial staff thinks of the business.
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@dashrender said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
@eddiejennings said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
Learn something new and spectacular about Sage every day.
But on a positive note, I learn correct terminology
How old is your sage install?
We have Business Works (formally Business Works Gold). I'm pretty sure they have moved onto a real DB connection. They use a Pervasive DB.
We've had it literally since the beginning of time (when it was still Peachtree Accounting). We "upgraded" from version 2017 to 2018 last week.
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@eddiejennings said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
@dashrender said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
@eddiejennings said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
Learn something new and spectacular about Sage every day.
But on a positive note, I learn correct terminology
How old is your sage install?
We have Business Works (formally Business Works Gold). I'm pretty sure they have moved onto a real DB connection. They use a Pervasive DB.
We've had it literally since the beginning of time (when it was still Peachtree Accounting). We "upgraded" from version 2017 to 2018 last week.
What's it called?
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@dashrender said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
@eddiejennings said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
@dashrender said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
@eddiejennings said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
Learn something new and spectacular about Sage every day.
But on a positive note, I learn correct terminology
How old is your sage install?
We have Business Works (formally Business Works Gold). I'm pretty sure they have moved onto a real DB connection. They use a Pervasive DB.
We've had it literally since the beginning of time (when it was still Peachtree Accounting). We "upgraded" from version 2017 to 2018 last week.
What's it called?
? Peachtree Accounting, as I understand it, was the original application. The company that developed it was bought by Sage, which rebranded the applicaiton to Sage Accounting [insert flavor here]. We use Sage 50 Quantum.
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Pervasive makes both PSQL and Btrieve products.
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Looks like Sage bought Peachtree in 1999, so we've been using this application since at least then.
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@eddiejennings said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
Looks like Sage bought Peachtree in 1999, so we've been using this application since at least then.
Sure, there's no reason that Sage couldn't have converted it to a DBMS
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@eddiejennings said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
@dashrender said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
@eddiejennings said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
@dashrender said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
@eddiejennings said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
Learn something new and spectacular about Sage every day.
But on a positive note, I learn correct terminology
How old is your sage install?
We have Business Works (formally Business Works Gold). I'm pretty sure they have moved onto a real DB connection. They use a Pervasive DB.
We've had it literally since the beginning of time (when it was still Peachtree Accounting). We "upgraded" from version 2017 to 2018 last week.
What's it called?
? Peachtree Accounting, as I understand it, was the original application. The company that developed it was bought by Sage, which rebranded the applicaiton to Sage Accounting [insert flavor here]. We use Sage 50 Quantum.
Wow, that website is a joke. It looks like a high school kid's project.
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@dashrender said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
@eddiejennings said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:
Looks like Sage bought Peachtree in 1999, so we've been using this application since at least then.
Sure, there's no reason that Sage couldn't have converted it to a DBMS
Every blog did it, pretty sad if accounting software can't.
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Why isn't businesses going with something like Workday (https://www.workday.com/) instead of hosting their own like Sage?
