[Info-vax] Databases versus RMS

[Bob Koehler]

In article <4f8dc739$0$1688$c3e8da3$50776f34 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> 
>> One DBMS is not like every other DMBS. I have have had a Rdb database
>> "break" due to a simple power failure.
> 
> Are there options which make a database more robust, but many database
> admins, being too inexperienced, don't think about them ?  or are some
> database systems, being "free/opensourced" just too easy to get majorly
> screwed up because of a power failure ?

   As with all things, it depends.  Often there is a tradeoff between
   reliable and fast.  The push to increase performance, at the cost of
   some potentially far-off work on what is perceived to be a rare
   failure, is quite real.

   Works really strongly on a PHM that assumes it won't fail until some
   other PHM is in the hot seat.