Point-of-sale transactions, inventory transactions due to POS activity,
and summarized versions of both that are then pushed to the accounting
system based on invoice cycles. Really simple stuff.

-----Original Message-----
From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of venussoftop
Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 1:19 PM
To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [firebird-support] Re: Desgin question - Mutiple years of data,
single database or many?

Thanks Rick, this has improved my confidence of keeping the data
together. From what you have written it seams you have some kind of
accounting and / inventory application, maybe an ERP?

Thanks for replying

Kind regards.
Bhavbhuti

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Debay" <rdebay@...>
wrote:

>
> We keep everything, and make sure to have appropriate indexes on date
> fields. The only problem we ever have is when we fail to include a
> constrain the date range on large calculations.
> We archive data only when it is older than various data retention
> mandates, usually five or seven years. Then it rots on a tape in a
> safety deposit box.

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