Author: Mogens Larsen
Date: 14:13:28 12/20/01
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On December 20, 2001 at 15:56:58, Jeroen van Dorp wrote: >It's a pity you have such a negative experience with CB8; my copy seldom >crashes, and I think the program is very complete as an advanced database >program. > >I understand that CA is faster in sorting and rebuidling databases, but as a >general rule of thumb you should keep work databases as small as possible, to >ensure that the quality is high enough and you can get relevant data out of it. >In that case large databases are just there for reaping the right games. > >I have no reservations against CB8, I like it very much, it works good - at >least as stable as any Windows based program. > >Better turn the question around. What do you want to do with your database? A >lot of people I see posting here make very sparsly use of specific database >features, they won't get further than "collecting games". But they do like to >have an all in program for analysis, "shootout" playing with various strong >engines online playing etc. > >I think in this respect you could better choose a program that gives you that >skeleton database functionality like the Fritz family, or the more extended ones >in CA. > >If you're a database afficionado, looking to extract *very* specific data from >*very* welldefined sources and with *very* complicated queries, I think CB8 is a >good choice I wholeheartedly recommend. Well, I would like to support that recommendation. At least in the sense that I haven't experienced any frequent crashing either. The speed, number of features and usability are always issues of importance, but I don't have CA as a frame of reference to judge. Therefore it goes without saying that this isn't an attempt to favor one over the other. But I'm quite sure that both programs are capable of solving most of the tricky requests you throw at them. Regards, Mogens
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