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Re:Learn how to design large-scale systems by blattimwind on Friday July 13, 2018 @11:09AM (#17523554)
I think "changing the DB" likely referred to schema changes, not swapping out the DBMS.
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Re:Learn how to design large-scale systems by pc86 on Friday July 13, 2018 @02:29PM (#17525485)
> > > > It also makes changing your DB a lot easier since APIs using the DAL don't need to be updated since they're DB agnostic [emphasis mine]

I took it as changing the DBMS under the hood.

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