Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Another issue relevant to constructing a database is robustness. How
> robust are Metacard stacks? What sort of recovery tools are available?
> For instance, if a card or stack is corrupt, are there tools available
> to repair it, or at least extract the data (contents of fields
> especially) and delete the offending card?
I know of none.
> In 8 years of using Hypercard, I've only had one corrupt card which I
> was unable to access. I had to copy and paste each healthy card from the
> stack into a new stack to fix the problem. That's not an ideal solution,
> but at least HC seems fairly robust. On the other hand, I haven't yet
> used any stacks with thousands or tens of thousands of cards.
Well, I have, and that was the main reason for using Oracle as a database:
HyperCard is just not robust enough. And you get so much in addition. If
you once have seen what you can do with SQL... Hey! I'm not selling
Oracle here... get any database.
C.U.
R�diger
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