• lmr0x61@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    As mentioned elsewhere, this is appropriate for anyone doing database administration, because DB writes should always be a trans action.

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      11 hours ago

      I get that this is a joke, but…

      … ackshually it should almost never be a transaction only when there’s absolutely no other option, because transactions kill your performance.

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        4 hours ago

        Actually transactions can be a secomd-layer safety-net for single-responsibility writers to ensure rollback on eg restarts and consistency on loadbalancer redecisions without having much of an impact on performance, and data integrity is usually quite important.

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        6 hours ago

        Unless you’re using Firebird (3) in which not using transactions kills your performance