[Info-vax] Databases versus RMS

[JF Mezei]

A web forum has been down for over 24 hours now because of a power
failure. Seems their database "broke".

Since there are few teenagers here, I figured I might get some "senior"
opinions.

Are database engines so fragile that a power failure will truly wreak
havok on a database requiring time consuming work and debugging ?

Or is this more of a question of young inexperienced web geeks setting
up some forum software without selecting the right database options and
not realising that letting a database keep everything in cache (writing
later when it has time) is a recipe for disaster ?