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the responsible person for the computer protection has to decide about the monitoring of such
temporary folders following the company guidelines.
Database 2
Another database instance for Connect will be hold and used under the folder, which is
intended to hold data, accessible by and for all users. The path to this folder is stored in the
standardized system variable %PROGRAMDATA%. The Connect database instance is located
in the subfolder "Connect\MySQL".
As this database will be in extremely strong usage, virus protection on this folder and its
subfolders may have a serious impact on the performance of Connect.
Database Considerations
This page describes the different considerations and pre-requisites for the database back-end
used by PlanetPress Connect, whether using the MySQL instance provided by the installer, or
pre-existing (external) instance.
Using the MySQL Instance from the Installer
The MySQL Instance provided in the Installation Wizard is already pre-configured with options
to provide the most stable back-end setup.
These are the specific options that have been changed in our version of "my.ini":
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max_connections = 200 : PlanetPress Connect uses a lot of database connections. This
number ensures that even in high volume environments, enough connections will be
available.
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max_allowed_packet = 500M : In some implementations, especially when using Capture
OnTheGo, large packet sizes are required to allow transferring binary files. This
substantial packet size maximum setting ensures that the data received by PlanetPress
Connect will be able to be stored within the database.
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character-set-server = utf8 , collation-server = utf8_unicode_ci , default-character-
set=utf8 : These indicate database support for UTF-8/Unicode.
Installing / Updating Connect Using an existing local MySQL instance
If MySQL Server is already present and you wish to use it, the following should be taken into
consideration:
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