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From: kji@vpnet.chi.il.us (Ken Isacson)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Paradox vs. Clarion Opinions Wanted
Message-ID: <1991Feb13.033147.1140@vpnet.chi.il.us>
Date: 13 Feb 91 03:31:47 GMT
References: <1991Feb11.025108.21004@cbnewsh.att.com> <1991Feb11.163707.10213@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <3329@polari.UUCP>
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In article <3329@polari.UUCP> random@polari.UUCP (tamara thomas) writes:
>My personal experience with Paradox has been sufficient to encourage you to
>use any other database.  Our company has a multiuser database.  We regularly have to reconstruct the main tables after the program scrambles the data.  It will
>scramble data even when one person is updating and one person is querying.  Our
>tests indicate that it is not network dependant (we use both Novell and LANMAN,
>both have the mix-up data problem with the database).  Paradox may be adequate
>for many applications, but if you want to have the ability to have two people
>in the database at once, choose a different product.
>              
>Tamara Thomajjs

What version of Paradox were you using?



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