Re: Survey...Please help and respond!!

Mladen Gogala <mgogala.spam-me-not_at_verizon.net> wrote:

> > · Are you switching any database in favor of an alternative? If so,
> > which
> > ones?
> > · Are there any general trends you see in the database market?
 

> Yes. Products are less tested, buggier and more and more unreliable.

An interesting observation. Is this being caused by the pace of "feature stuffing" overtaking testing? The increasing complexity of systems creating a multiplicative rather than an additive burden on management of problems?

How do the open source offerings compare on this front? I'm thinking PostgreSQL, Firebird and MySQL?

Paul...

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Interbase 6.0.1.0;

When asking database related questions, please give other posters 
some clues, like operating system, version of db being used and DDL.
The exact text and/or number of error messages is useful (!= "it didn't work!").
Thanks.
 
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time analysing and attempting to help, please 
do not top post.