Hi Noname, (are you Rock Solid anough to give your name?)

FB is Rock Solid than other RDBMS if,

Your netwrok voltage RS (RockSolid),
&
Your Power Supply is RS,
&
Your Main board circuits is RS,
&
Your BIOS version is RS,
&
Your DISK elektromechanical system is RS,
&
Your OS kernel is RS,
&
Your Device Drivers are RS,
&
Your Application is RS,
&
Your DB design RS,
&
Your users RS anough to using computers,
...

We are using FB/IB since last millenium for hospital automation
projects.
There is no any RDBMS that i can prefer over FB.
(Oracle? may be, if you want to break-dance with elephants)

But, don't foget, FB is for clever developers, not for amateurs!
For user level, FB is for everybody, install&forget it.

Regards.

Ali

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "dancooperstock"
<dcoops@s...> wrote:

> (I've had some correspondence about this on the IB-Conversions

list,

> but I was advised to move it here.)
>
> I am the developer of a free program with over 2,000 users,

currently

> using Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere for its database. For various
> reasons, I'm considering switching to Firebird.
>
> My concern is that it has to be absolutely rock solid, zero
> administration, and as close to zero problems (e.g. database
> corruption) as possible. With Sybase ASA, I think in 5 years of
> supporting my program I have had only 1 or 2 users who have

actually

> had a problem with their database.
>
> I've asked here before, and was told that yes, Firebird is just

that

> rock solid.
>
> However, I just read the first issue of The Interbase and Firebird
> Developer Magazine. I see there are ads in there for products like
> IBSurgeon (for repairing corrupted databases), IBFirstAid (for
> diagnosing and repairing common corruptions of InterBase and

Firebird

> databases) and IBBackupSurgeon (for reading data from corrupted
> backups).
>
> The need for these programs has me worried about whether Firebird

is

> really rock-solid enough for me to use as the embedded DB in my
> application or not.
>
> Under what sorts of circumstances do Firebird databases, and their
> backups, tend to get corrupted?
>
> Thanks.