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<task id="maintaindatabase" xml:lang="en-us">
<title>Maintaining a database</title>
<shortdesc>Maintaining a database does not take much work.</shortdesc>
<prolog><metadata>
<keywords><indexterm>database</indexterm><indexterm>maintain</indexterm>
</keywords>
</metadata></prolog>
<taskbody>
<steps-unordered>
<step><cmd>If the database crashes, restart it.</cmd></step>
<step><cmd>If the database is slow, tell people not to put so much in it.</cmd>
</step>
<step><cmd>Try to limit the number of records in your database. Too many records
leads to confusion.</cmd></step>
</steps-unordered>
</taskbody>
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