Customer vs Company

[Derek Atkins]

linas at linas.org (Linas Vepstas) writes:

> XML is also good for network transport, and an earlier version of the XML
> file format did just that.  It is useful for portability too; not all SQL
> dialects are the same, and gnucash uses stored proceedures, which not
> all databases handle well.  Archiveing too.   Old database backups
> are often dangerous, useless, and unrestorable, and thus unsuitable 
> for archiving.

I'm not convinced that Gnucash _NEEDS_ to use stored procedures --
in particular for an embedded-db.

> --linas

-derek
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