Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!mailrus!cwjcc!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: FoxBase Message-ID: <13362@ncoast.ORG> Date: 24 Jan 89 02:27:58 GMT References: <5187@lynx.UUCP> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: comp.databases Distribution: na Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 23 As quoted from <5187@lynx.UUCP> by vik@lynx.uucp (Vikram Sohal): +--------------- | Anybody out there know how the FoxBase multi-user database for Microport | system V compares to the likes of Informix and Oracle? +--------------- I'll be getting direct experience with it soon for a client. In the meantime, I noticed that the available documentation states that it buffers I/O internally. This means that either (a) it leaves records locked for longer than it really should or (b) it doesn't have real concurrency control / locking mechanisms. Either one pretty much emasculates its multiuser ability. (If someone at SCO or Fox can tell me otherwise, speak now! I can't in conscience recommend this package to any of our Unix clients if it doesn't handle concurrent access correctly. [The client who *is* going to be using it is really only using it single-user, and bought it with the understanding that it was risky to use multi-user.]) ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc allbery@ncoast.org uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu Send comp.sources.misc submissions to comp-sources-misc@ NCoast Public Access UN*X - (216) 781-6201, 300/1200/2400 baud, login: makeuser