Hi,

> Yes, we're trying this. Fingers crossed. While a good database is
> essential and the first order of business it would be nice to have some
> idea of what happened. This database is central to the business of
> administering other peoples money and when wierd shite happens it
> concerns me greatly - especially when no errors appear when using gfix
> or gbak.
>
> Perhaps we should be running Oracle / Posgresql / etc? I really like
> Firebird when it's working, but when it isn't working properly I find it
> very unhelpful. Log messages are next to useless, error messages
> likewise. And when my management ask me what happened and will it happen
> again I have no good answer.

Ever had to restore a non-working Oracle database?

Useless errormessages for $$$ ... :-D

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
Database Workbench - developer tool for InterBase, Firebird, MySQL & MS SQL
Server.
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