[moneydance] data file corruption

[Edward Reid]

At 12:16 04/29/07 -0500, Fuzzy Fox wrote:
>Quicken is NOT a good example to hold up as a program which never loses
>data.

Bringing this discussion full circle, right? ;-)

Actually Quicken never lost any data for me ... just made it too hard to 
get to. But then, you prove my point, that a database model isn't always 
better. (And MD has not lost any of my data either, despite a crash and a 
scare.) And the fact that Quicken uses its own database rather than third 
party software is undoubtedly a large part of why it's weak.

As for requiring a separate install (per Elana), MySQL has an embedded 
version which simply installs as part of the application. I don't know 
how/whether this would work with a Java application. If HSQLDB (mentioned 
by someone else) has or eventually acquires this capability, that would 
also address the complexity.

It also may reach the point that all the popular OSs have a basic 
SQL-interface DB installed as standard. WinXP already does. If this 
happens, it would mitigate the need for a separate installation for 
programs with simple database needs.

Edward
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