On Friday, August 22, 2003, at 12:07 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
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Single-file databases also introduce a number of problems:
1) The database file is extremely vulnerable to corruption, and if corruption
occurs it is usually not localized but destroys the entire database due to
corruption of the internal file structure. Recovery of raw data out of a
damaged single-file database inevitably requires specialized tools if it is
possible at all.
Having fallen victim to Oracle crapping in its own nest and doing this exact thing, and having to drop some stupid amount of $$ to Oracle for them to use their "specialized tool" to try to recover data (which they really didn't do much of), I concur with this statement.
Boy, was that a lousy experience.
---------------------- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco
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