[Gllug] Microsoft was distributing Ubuntu

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Wed Jul 4 18:54:15 UTC 2007


On 4 Jul 2007, Richard Turner told this:
> Well now, that very much depends on what you use it for. I don't think
> replication is an essential feature for using an RDBMS

I'm certain it isn't. Of the thirty-odd Small to Very Large Banks my
(nasty) workplace sells stuff to, *one* is replicating is core
databases. *One*. (And it's not the largest. That one's only just learnt
about RAID.)

(This is all on Orrible.)

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