RE: Looks Like The Party Is Over In Menlo (2nd try)

> From: "smooth1" <smooth1@iclway.co.uk> > > > >David Stes wrote in message <3996D0C7.4F8BF4C0@pandora.be>... > > >smooth1 wrote: > > >> > > >> - 9.20 and soon 9.30 will merge the 2 engines. > > >> - Workgroup Edition appeared at 1/3 the price to replace SE. > > > > > >Why exactly is it that SE has to be replaced ? > > > > 1. No logical recovery:- > > > > After a crash or if a sqlexec process > > (i.e. session) dies uncleanly or is killed you have to > > > > a) bcheck the whole database > > b) in an index has one corrupt entry, rebuild the whole index > > rather than rollingback the transaction. > > > > 2. No checks on the data. > > > > IDS has page header/trailer timestamps and does consistency > > checking on each page accessed. (Hence Assert Failed > > messages). > > > > 3. No way to backup with the users on. > > > > Hence most sites get at least minor inconsistencies in their > > backups. > > > > 4. No way to cleanly kill a process (IDS has onmode -z to cleanly > > kill a session). > > > > > > Hence, my backups are corrupt, I can't handle crashes, kill errant > > users and I won't know about corruption until someone spots > > that the system is producing crap data (if this gets > spotted at all!). > > > > SE is out of data in terms of data integrity and should be dropped > > in favour of IDS Workgroup Edition. What about the people that use SE and find it reliable, straightforward to use and don't want the learning curve or expense of IDS? What about the people that bundled SE as part of product? Do they all just move to access or something Paul Watson # WF Software Ltd # You are only young once Tel: +44 1436 674729 # but you can be immature Fax: +44 1436 678693 # forever www.wfsoftware.com # ********************************************************************** The contents of this e-mail are confidential to the ordinary user(S) of the mail address(es) to which it was sent and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of it, or any part of it, in any form whatsoever, and any actions taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. **********************************************************************