Any differences in choosing MySql vrs XML file?

[Keith Bellairs]

Use of a database allows you to make use of the database's security. This
can give you password protection of data. The quality of the security then
depends on the dbms and not on gnucash (though your data will still be in
memory when the application is running, if you are really paranoid).

Use of a database complicates keeping of a backup. Backing up a mysql db is
not the same as making a copy of an XML file.

None of this helps with trying to make gnucash a multi-user application.

Keith

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> dniezby <daveniezby at yahoo.com> writes:
>
> > I was really hoping I hit the jackpot.  I'd like to put my backend
> > online and be able to create am app for iPhone so that it could
> > connect and enter transactions while I'm on the road. Or at least
> > something that can track my transactions on the road and I can import
> > them in.
>
> Sorry, even if you DID you MySQL we do not support data modification
> outside of the application (or outside the GnuCash Libraries/APIs).  So
> you couldn't write an iOS app unless you ported the GnuCash Engine.
>
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> -derek
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