Monday, March 26, 2012

Is this possible? SQL Server 2000 Write times

No timezone discrepancy, they did it in our labs here at our institution. I
didn't think so, but had to ask. What logs would i search and what would I
look for?

Shawn Ferguson wrote:
> I created an online application for one of our educational programs.
> The data is inserted via website entry -> client side validation ->
> stored procedure -> database. Given a table stucture as follows, if 100
> or even 1000 people applied at the exact same time using an online
> application, what is the maximum time interval that could separate each
> record. How long would SQL Server 2000 generally take to insert each
> record into the database. The problem is that each year, only the top
> 100 students are admitted in the program, but there is one student who
> says they applied at 9:00 am and their record insert time shows 9:59am.
> There are records before it and after it that shows times like 9:58,
> 9:58, 9:59: 10:00, 10:00, etc. Could it really take SQL Server 59
> minutes to actually write the record if 1000 people hit the database at
> the same time? Please help, they want to get counsil involved.
>
> ApplicantID int primary key identity
> SSN varchar(11)
> FirstName varchar(30)
> LastName varchar(50)indexed
> Address varchar (50)
> City varchar (50)
> State char (2)
> Zip varchar (11)
> Phone varchar (20)
> Email varchar (50)
> dateEntered smalldatetime
I would not expect that sort of delay. 9:00am/9:59am, could there be a
time zone discrepancy? Can you use your website logs to determine when
the user made their submission?Shawn Ferguson wrote:
> No timezone discrepancy, they did it in our labs here at our
> institution. I didn't think so, but had to ask. What logs would i
> search and what would I look for?
>
That would be a question for your web server folks. Your web server
should maintain logs of the visits to the web site.|||> No timezone discrepancy, they did it in our labs here at our institution.
That doesn't mean that some computer along the way doesn't have an incorrect
timezone and/or system time specified!

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