> >But I just want to be clear to anyone else reading the list (lurkers et >al) that your statement of "I don't think PowerMail or other well-written >applications behave like this" simply isn't true. Very well-written >database engines keep files open, and yes, a crash or cut to power can >leave those files unusable. But I'd like to stress for the technical out >there (and there seem to be plenty on this list) that that's not an >indication that the app is flawed; it's simply the nature of databases. >
Uh, I disagree. I work with lots of database managers that pride themselves of being able to recover back/forward to a specified point-in-time. That is a *requirement*. -- Craig Dudley Systems & Communications Sciences, Inc. 244 Poor Farm Rd. New Ipswich, NH 03071-3922 603-878-1148 Fax 603-878-1929
