Marriott CEO shares post-mortem on last year's hack

Re:Marriott CEO shares post-mortem on last year's hack by bradjohnson on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @02:24PM (#19371344)

Doesn't make sense to query the db for a count of the number of records that are returned. You can figure that out from the result set inside your application.

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Re:Marriott CEO shares post-mortem on last year's hack by ceejayoz on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @02:27PM (#19371375)

If the result set is "all users", you probably don't want to pull tens or hundreds of millions of records just to count them up if you're showing 100 per page.

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Re:Marriott CEO shares post-mortem on last year's hack by bradjohnson on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @02:42PM (#19371556)

I think that something like a query for hundreds of millions of records that also required pagination for the exact number of records returned is anomalous and not something that their application would do.

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