Post #1393887
2025-08-21 12:42 UTC
“So, do you have a _database_ or do you have a table that happens to be stored in a database” is not a question that makes you friends with CTOs it turns out.
(It’s a table that happens to be stored in a database.)
Replies (3)
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@afeinman@wandering.shop 2025-08-21 12:56
@mhoye "Let me ask another way, was this migrated from a load-bearing Excel file?"
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@lerxst@az.social 2025-08-21 13:50
@mhoye 57k transactions a DAY was nothing even when I was a Sybase DBA back in the 90s. But I’ll guess architecture astronauts more interested in padding their CVs than just building shit that works think that’s a lot? On modern hardware, I could make specs like those performant on a flat file.
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@neoluddite@aus.social 2025-08-21 14:18
@mhoye so they could just email it to themselves as a csv file?