In Mr Smiths examples, one statement effect is a direct result of an action you (subjectively speaking) knowingly did, or did not do, to the car. You did not fuel the car. You did take the wheels off. There by, your car is essentially a hunk of metal taking up space. It doesn't function as designed.
The second, if you're driving along, blow the radiator hose, break a belt, spark plug fails, coils and cables start shorting, push a rod through the engine housing, whatever. You've got a failure in the system that prevents the car from function that happens due to indirect activities with the vehicle. Both cases essentially make the car not run, or becomes non-functional, or causes damage. Say a spark hitting the pool of drying oil on the engine which sparks a fire? Or the belt you break happens to be the timing belt? Piston rod that goes through the case? Sparks grounding to the engine instead of in the cylinder head? For SQLite, running your software where your data store is on the network, your running the philosophy of the second statement. Some people/businesses have run their SQLite database system for YEARS without an issue. Myself, I've never been stranded in my 20 years of driving with any of my vehicles, and trust me, I've driven wrecks of cars, so I've been lucky. My mother, however, one time managed to drive about 2 hours down the highway, then come to a stop sign on an off-ramp, and the transmission just would not engage in gear when she went to go. I've NEVER heard of an instance of MySQL, Postgres, MSSQL, or any other major database that reliably runs on a different machine. Different partitions, different file systems, or different hard drives all controlled by a single OS, yes, but all run ON a single OS, not across a network. My thoughts on this are all illustrated here : http://randomthoughts.ca/index.php?/archives/7-Serverless-Servers-using-NFS-Why-it-cant-happen.html On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 12:05 PM, R Smith <rsm...@rsweb.co.za> wrote: > Ha, true but the point is only semantic though... > > The statement: "My car is reliable so long as I remember to add Fuel and > not remove the wheels.", is not really self-contradicting, is it? > > "My car is reliable so long as it doesn't break" - is a different matter. > > > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
