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Re:Things I wished more developers knew about databases by kyllo on Thursday April 23, 2020 @01:06AM (#22952992)
SQL connections can be arbitrarily long-lived. ETL processes and other data-intensive jobs often take multiple hours.
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Re:Things I wished more developers knew about databases by fendy3002 on Thursday April 23, 2020 @07:53AM (#22954976)
OP said it need to sleep for 30+ minutes. Is it common for connection to idle for half hours for etl processes?
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