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Re:Domain Logic and SQL (2003) by taffer on Friday February 21, 2020 @08:41AM (#22382972)
> Additional CPUs are $7,000 USD per core, and replication is labor intensive

Probably still cheaper than trying to impement scalable transactions in higher layers.

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Re:Domain Logic and SQL (2003) by BrentOzar on Friday February 21, 2020 @08:51AM (#22383037)
> Probably still cheaper than trying to impement scalable transactions in higher layers.

Transactions, yes, I totally agree. That's what databases are for: reliably storing and retrieving data. It's where you start doing domain logic that things get tougher, like (and I wish I was joking) calling cross-continent web services from the database and building HTML inside SQL.

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