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US Monitoring Database Reaches Limit, Quits Tracking Felons and Parolees

Posted by timothy on from the paid-by-the-row dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Thousands of US sex offenders, prisoners on parole and other convicts were left unmonitored after an electronic tagging system shut down because of data overload. BI Incorporated, which runs the system, reached its data threshold — more than two billion records — on Tuesday. This left authorities across 49 states unaware of offenders' movement for about 12 hours." As the astonished submitter asks, "2 billion records?"

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  1. Well no wonder by Fry-kun · · Score: 5, Funny

    MS Access can't possibly handle 2 billion records, no matter how much hardware you throw at it.

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  2. Thereby solving the problem... by Adambomb · · Score: 5, Funny

    BI increased its data storage capacity to avoid a repeat of the problem.

    ONCE AND FOR ALL.

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  3. CSV To The Rescue! by WidgetGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

    The actual data was only about 500K. The rest was XML markup.

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