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Re:A terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day at Slack by foota on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @07:20AM (#23757984)
What? You can totally run disturbed SQL without data loss. Did you mean to imply something in particular?
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Re:A terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day at Slack by bigiain on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @07:58AM (#23758248)
CAP theorem strongly suggests if you optimise against data loss you have to trade off something else which is probably important too...
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Re:A terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day at Slack by rutthenut on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @08:06AM (#23758313)
'Disturbed' SQL confused me, had to look up the thread to see Distributed SQL. And yes, I agree, you certainly can run distributed without data loss, depending on the platform design and your 'transaction level'.
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