[Serusers] Why Transactional Accounting?

At first it seemed like a really good idea then the more I looked at real world records I realized that to generate a bill for a customer would require quite bit of work on MySQL's part to match up the INVITE's and the BYE's and then calc the difference in the times. This causes a bit of a problem for me because I like my customers to be able to see their CDR records live. Which really isn't much unless you look at it from a 100,000 user perspective. I would either have to beat up my SQL server every time they look at their records (or my customer service employees look at them or even when the biller generates their bill) or run a cron job that runs every so often to convert the data to a single record with a start time and a duration and store it in another table. The cron idea isn't too efficient because of wasting disk space and rewriting a lot of the same data twice. This then leads me to ask why the SER acc module wasn't setup to generate an initial start record identical to the INVITE message that it already does that would be marked as "in progress"? Then when a BYE is received with a matching Call-ID you find the original INVITE record, change its status to "done" and populate a duration field. Any ideas why this can't be done without affecting SER's scalability? :) Thanks! ---------------------------------------- Michael Shuler, C.E.O. BitWise Systems, Inc. 682 High Point Lane East Peoria, IL 61611 Office: (217) 585-0357 Cell: (309) 657-6365 Fax: (309) 213-3500 E-Mail: mike(a)bwsys.net Customer Service: (877) 976-0711