Re: Dropping ACID - was Re: does a table always need a PK?

From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne_at_acm.org>
Date: 31 Aug 2003 16:49:24 GMT
Message-ID: <bit8uk$co580$1_at_ID-125932.news.uni-berlin.de>


Martha Stewart called it a Good Thing when"Bob Badour" <bbadour_at_golden.net>wrote:
> "Christopher Browne" <cbbrowne_at_acm.org> wrote in message
> news:bircns$ccakp$1_at_ID-125932.news.uni-berlin.de...
>> It will take a good deal more
>> than that to satisfactorily justify it being a good idea to drop ACID
>> altogether.
>
> I had to read that twice. The first time I somehow perceived it as saying
> something about "being a good idea to drop ACID together", which has a
> strangely different meaning.

Too much LDS in the '60s? (Which might take memory back to the Star Trek comedy, _Star Trek IV, The Voyage Home_...)

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