MySQL sync

Marcus Wolschon Marcus at Wolschon.biz
Mon Aug 17 12:50:59 EDT 2009


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Derek Atkins schrieb:
> Marcus,
> 
> Marcus Wolschon <Marcus at Wolschon.biz> writes:
> 
>> There must be a way without violating 1st normal form and storing
>> everything twice.
>> Maybe an "updated"-timstamp or something may help.
> 
> Maybe...  I was thinking about ways to avoid using timestamps per se,

Timestamps are created by the database-server and the database-server
alone.  (the SQL-function is called "now()")


>> (Also I`m concerned that still loading all transactions from the db
>> into ram will work
>>  out after a few years of bookkeeping. You cannot split a database by
>> year as you can
>>  an xml-file.
> 
> Why can't you?

Because you would need to new databases with user access-rights
and backup and everything. It`s not as trivial as copying a local
file if the servers in the company are properly managed.


Marcus
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