The mystery crash and fault tolerance

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 7/7/05 7:26 PM, "John W. Miescher" <miescher at bizdata.com> wrote:

> Dear Ruslan,
> our problems are not over yet. While I found some work-arounds for problems
> cited earlier, I continue to be hit by surprise crashes.
>  
> I just made a typing mistake that would ask for or write to a field with a
> name that does not exist in the table. I'm guilty, I know. But the next time I
> launched the program it instantly crashed because the DataBase (or at least
> one of its tables) was corrupted beyond repair. I had to re-load the backup
> copy.
>  
> It still opened in Valentina Studio, but as you know, my version does not do
> the diagnose bit - it just sits there and lets you wait while VS is endlessly
> busy taking up CPU time.
>  
> This is what I call absence of fault tolerance - I'm just afraid of
> encountering more such surprises as we go along.

Hi John,

IF you know some way to corrupt db, please show us this way.
We need STEPS to reproduce to fix any problem.

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Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

Valentina - Joining Worlds of Information
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