"Denver Braughler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > kevin furze wrote: > > a recent thread called "^REPAIR routine documentation" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > talked of problems within ... Cache, and the opinion was that > > although rare, they do happen > I can't say that everyone agreed that they happened. > > Personally, I conceded only that they may happen on a misconfigured system > with a production release. > Running with a bad disk controller or HDA would be a serious misconfiguration. >
Denver, You only have to review the archives of release notes to see that, at times, there have been faults in Cache that cause database degradation. These have only affected a small number of systems, but clearly some systems with specific configurations (not misconfigured!) were suffering failures. I recall one release back around 4.0.x that was a total bitch and caused numerous db errors on my systems, all of which went away after upgrading Cache - and NOT changing any hardware or the configuration. DBMSs from all vendors are probably the same in this regard, but ISC support is probably far more responsive in correcting the errors than others. I'm NOT knocking Cache, but these problems are a reality of life. Colin
