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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:This is why MySQL ignites flamewars by justins · · Score: 1, Troll
    You can do *much* better error checking with a turing-complete programming language than you can with SQL. That's what we do with our applications even though we use Oracle. The biggest problem is that you must have good programmers.

    Which you obviously don't...

    You're right that pre-processing is a good way to do constraints.

    If your database has one user.
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    Now before I get modded down, I be to remind whoever might read this that what I am saying is FACT. - bogaboga
  2. Re:This is why MySQL ignites flamewars by Squeebee · · Score: 0, Troll

    MySQL will always ignite slashdot flamewars because there is always a Postgres troll standing by to start one.