[Info-vax] Databases versus RMS

[Bob Koehler]

In article <4f8dbbf4$0$24585$c3e8da3$e408f015 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> 
> Are database engines so fragile that a power failure will truly wreak
> havok on a database requiring time consuming work and debugging ?

   From time to time, things that should work, like databases, or
   filesystems, don't.  Generally vendors will fix things real quick.
   I once spec'd IBM AIX in part because I assumed that IBM would
   provide a bug free filesystem.  Boy was I suprized when I had to
   manually run fsck after every power outage.  I was not suprized when
   the next minor version release fixed it.

   "database" could also be a collection of data, without an actual
   DBMS.

   But it's easy to buy a DBMS that does work, and not uses it
   correctly.