Still, the database engine was/is a liability as long as the locking policy and the transaction support messed up your data. As a one-user only system it was fi

Still, the database engine was/is a liability as long as the locking policy and the transaction support messed up your data. As a one-user only system it was fine, however people developed critical, multi-user business systems with this toy engine. It allowed uneducated cowboys to develop systems fast that failed horribly.