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Old 04-14-2017, 07:43 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by johnnyb View Post
That is of course true, you'll always have to do something. But like you said sometimes it’s not even clear that you did “something”. I think if they were clever they would either allow for online backup of all data or at least get rid of that monolithic database. Having databases that can potentially grow in size beyond what the device and rest of the OS can actually handle has always been a dumb idea (I'm looking at you, Windows registry).
So what should they use? Flat files? Or read the books files each time the want to show the data? Either way leads to madness and slow systems. The current database is not good. It desperately needs a cleanup to get rid of tables and columns no longer needed. But it is backwardly compatible with a lot of firmware versions and would probably need a large rewrite. And that's something that no company will pay for without a really good reason.
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