Re: performance problem - 10.000 databases

We have a similar issue regarding security.  Some of the access to our
database will be by ODBC connections for reporting purposes (ie. Actuate
Report/Crystal Reports).  Without creating a zillion or so views (which I
suspect carries with it alot of overhead), I believe it would be tricky to
maintain security.

Our application is medical related, and we are bound by HIPAA rules, so
security is most important.  How would you architect this scenario so our
ASP customers cannot see each others data?

Naomi




> > I was more thinking that it might be possible to manage the security at
> a different level than the DB.
> >
>
>
>We do this with users and permissions.
>
>Each virtual host has an apache config include specifying a db user,
>pass (and database, although most of them use the same one).
>Permissions on the database tables are set so that a given vhost can
>only access their own data.
>
>Our setup is mod_perl. Don't know how one would go about doing this with
>PHP, but I imagine it has some mechanism for per-vhost variables or
>similar.
>
>-j
>
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>Jamie Lawrence                                        jal@jal.org
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>half-wits."
>    - Chris Klein
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