Subject Re: [firebird-tools] Technology to improve Firebird Reliability
Author Dimitry Sibiryakov
03.03.2010 13:20, Deepak Saldanha wrote:
> Sure, am talking about database errors originating from the backend(from
> Firebird), cascading to the front end and then ultimately corrupting the
> backend(Firebird) from subsequent queries.

Firebird has full support for ACID transaction, so database is always
in consistent state.

> --- On *Wed, 3/3/10, Dimitry Sibiryakov /<sd@...>/* wrote:
>
>
> From: Dimitry Sibiryakov <sd@...>
> Subject: Re: [firebird-tools] Technology to improve Firebird Reliability
> To: "Deepak Saldanha" <saldanhadeepak@...>
> Date: Wednesday, 3 March, 2010, 12:14
>
> 03.03.2010 12:32, Deepak Saldanha wrote:
> > Not sure if IBSurgeon is able to detect logical errors, that
> mostly go
> > unnoticed and results in wrong data cascading to the front end?
> Errors
> > are prevalent in most databases due to complexity and infact
> about 50%
> > of errors go unnoticed and do not result in the DB crashing. We have
> > undertaken tests to prove this.
>
> Firebird is back-end, not frond-end, thus such errors are out of scope.

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SY, SD.