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Database Error Detection and Recovery

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the bringing-out-the-dead dept.

CowboyRobot writes "ACM Queue has an interview by Steve Bourne with Bruce Lindsay, responsible for a lot of the SQL and RDBMS we use today, in which they discuss error detection and recovery. My favorite part other than the photos is the definition of Heisenbugs - those problems that disappear only when you explicitly look for them."

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  1. Re:Now we'll see by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In Korea, only old people use MySQL.

  2. That picture gives me the jitters... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "He has spent 20 years in senior engineering management positions at Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems, Digital Equipment, and Silicon Graphics, and is now chief technology officer at the venture capital partnership El Dorado Ventures in Menlo Park, California."

    ...and hasn't taken a shower since.