[Info-vax] Databases versus RMS

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

JF Mezei wrote 2012-04-17 20:52:
> 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 ?

No, not in general.

One DBMS is not like every other DMBS. I have have had a Rdb database
"break" due to a simple power failure.

And, generaly speaking, Rdb is more "safe" then a plain RMS
based "database".

>
> 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 ?
>

How on earth could we know *anything at all* about some unknown DB.
We don't even know the brand/model.