Can filepro do drill downs like acess?

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Fri Mar 26 09:33:33 PST 2004


On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 08:47:09PM -0600, Mike Schwartz-PC Support & Services wrote:
> 	I've worked with commit/rollback features on databases since my IBM
> mainframe days (circa 1975).  They aren't all that easy to control when you
> allow the database to do it for you.  For example, the rollback often
> doesn't work as smoothly as advertised, although I understand that the
> process is much improved in current versions of Oracle and other modern
> databases.
> 
> 	I've seen too many databases, especially inventory and accounts
> payable apps, hopelessly corrupted because the rollbacks didn't work
> correctly. 

Sounds like someone didn't put everything inside the same transaction
properly.  Cause, other than programmer errors, I've never even *heard*
of transactions not working perfectly, anywhere, ever.  

Cheers,
-- jra
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