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Re:You Can’t Sacrifice Partition Tolerance (2010) by tl on Sunday May 15, 2016 @02:47PM (#11702157)
Even if your web app and database are on the same server, you may experience partitions between the client and server.
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Re:You Can’t Sacrifice Partition Tolerance (2010) by Xorlev on Sunday May 15, 2016 @08:15PM (#11703442)
You can, but it's vastly less likely than networking partitions assuming your DB is operating as expected.
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