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Comment by orthoxerox

1 year ago

"Check constraints make the database run slower, just don't generate any values other than YN in the application layer"

You can guess how many foreign keys that database had.

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datadrivenangel  1 year ago

Must have been super fast though

  • DaiPlusPlus  1 year ago

    Not just fast, it's web-scale

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

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