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Thomas Mercer-Hursh
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I wouldn't sweep "disconnected or otherwise" under the rug. Running disconnected is a requirement in some contexts and clearly many of those would benefit by DB support. Of course, how many of them are likely to be ABL code is another question. Whereas, looking for cached data in a connected client without first exploring tuning, hardware, etc. to improve performance is quite another ... particularly since, if the bulk of the processing is on the appserver, one can use a single high performance link between the appserver and the DB server and use the existing network for the connection to the client.
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