There seem to be two schools of thought on this:
1. Paradox is subject to annoying random corruption.
2. Paradox is _very_ stable if treated properly.
I'm in the latter camp. Treated properly means using it like a shared file
ISAM database (so dBase and FoxPro are the same here) rather than a SQL
based Client/Server engine. Personally I have found it faster,
significantly, than dBase but that may have been the way I was handling
things. I know people who love xBase.
Various people have various incantations to keep it stable - Gary's talk at
Icon last year is probably as good a place to start as any (it was very
thorough) - I'm sure he's got a spare copy ;->.
Max
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Subject: [DUG-DB]: LAN - Paradox/Foxpro
I'm interested in you opinions/facts regarding an issue I was recently made
aware of. I am currently writing a LAN based program (client server is NOT
AN OPTION) and have, by default started using Paradox files.
I have been told to look seriously at converting to using FoxPro rather
than paradox files as these have less corruption. Examples are: missing
data; continual index corruption; and data corruption.
I have not experienced any of these but have not loaded up the data as yet,
just enough for the light testing involved in the midst of development.
I realise some data corruption in the fault of not using dbiSaveChanges in
the AfterPost event.
Steve
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