Pervasive Software: Reliable Database Which Runs Our Court!
Written: Aug 13 '00
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Pros: Rather Stable Relational Database
Cons: Conflicts With Interfaces Cause Nuisance Problems and Finger Pointing
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| sweetcece's Full Review: Pervasive.SQL 2000 |
For over 10 years, our court has used Pervasive Software and its predecessor, Btrieve, for use in our court case management system. During that time we have increased production multifold and even upgraded to newer servers and technology and still Pervasive performs flawlessly on our Novell Netware 3.12 server.
Pervasive is running on the server to support our court case management software which is called Sustain Justice. (Complete information for this software package is listed at http://www.sustain.net) Sustain's software interface is totally relational and dependent on Pervasive either on the server or local mode for operation.
Installation of Pervasive is rather straightforward from the instructions that are included with the software. However, we currently have a problem because our software vendor, Sustain, either inadvertently did not tell us to install our Pervasive correctly or it was installed in error causing our files to have a Btrieve 5.0 format. This is causing us to have problems with indexes not being able to be recognized in certain operations. Correction of this problem will necessitate us having to rebuild all of the files involved and because our files are so big, this is really rather impossible to do at the present time.
Another problem we are currently having with Pervasive is that when a user incorrectly exits out of our Sustain Justice software, this leaves a "dead" or "empty" connection in our Pervasive monitor. The only way to correct this is to have someone manually delete out these connections every day or to turn the server off. This is something that is happening with multiple locations of our software installation and even though Pervasive and Sustain are pointing fingers at each other saying "it's not my fault", it's definitely someone's fault and a real nuisance.
Other than these problems, which seem to be more involved with the user interface of the Sustain Justice package rather than Pervasive, I am overall pleased with the performance of the Pervasive product. We'll probably continue to use this version of Pervasive and Sustain Justice until the new version of Sustain called Sustain 21 is feasible for our location, probably within the next two years. That product will use Microsoft SQL, which will be the subject of another product review in the future.
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