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Re:Three fundamental tricks for developers writing distribut... by amalter on Monday December 03, 2012 @08:20PM (#4869009)
This was one of the main reasons explained to me on why db based queues are a code smell.

The other was that insert/select pattern of a queue hammers a db's index and data page fragmentation algorithms. Anyone know if this is still the case or am I repeating a wives-tale?

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Re:Three fundamental tricks for developers writing distribut... by fusiongyro on Monday December 03, 2012 @09:24PM (#4869196)
There are so many factors that go into database performance, but I would expect high frequency queuing would be problematic even today for the reasons you mention. If the load is low it's probably fine.
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