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Re:It’s not still the early days of blockchain by freeone3000 on Saturday January 15, 2022 @08:35AM (#29946219)
You'd use a private, permissioned blockchain over federated SQL databases due to the technical difficulties of synchronizing audit tables across organizational boundaries -- since an enterprise blockchain is append-only, immutable, time-stamped, and each new entry has a hash of the previous view, it overcomes a lot of data integrity issues inherent to a distributed SQL database. None of the companies here will fully trust each other to hold an exclusive copy of the data, so the blockchain here replaces an expensive manual reconciliation step in the event local accounting databases don't match up.

As an external user? Nobody cares, it's not for you, move on.

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Re:It’s not still the early days of blockchain by CRConrad on Monday January 17, 2022 @07:48PM (#29973500)
> since an enterprise blockchain is append-only, immutable, time-stamped, and each new entry has a hash of the previous view, it overcomes a lot of data integrity issues inherent to a distributed SQL database.

And why couldn't a distributed SQL database be append-only, immutable, time-stamped, and implemented so each new entry has a hash of the previous state? (If you own it, just set it up to disallow updates or deletes, and allow inserts only through a trigger / stored procedure that adds the timestamp and hash.)

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Re:It’s not still the early days of blockchain by freeone3000 on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @02:12PM (#29984190)
It could, and then it'd be a blockchain in SQL, like MSSQL's BLOCKCHAIN table type. Those features are definitional to a blockchain.
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Re:It’s not still the early days of blockchain by CRConrad on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @05:35AM (#29991983)
I take it using that data type in MS SQL Server doesn't use as much electricity as a small country, though?
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Re:It’s not still the early days of blockchain by tomc1985 on Thursday January 20, 2022 @12:27PM (#30011871)
Yeah but it's not nearly as sexy
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