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Transactions are very important and under appreciated
Eventually I'll add some exposition of my own. For now, I think that this
exposition by someone from the Open ACS project does a nice job:
http://openacs.org/why-not-mysql.html
I think there is a huge ignorance about transactions, and this
is unfortunate. I'm amazed at the number
of people with CS backgrounds who don't know what transactions
are. Heck, I got an MS in software engineering (and took quite
a few higher-level cources) and I was exposed to transactions
accidentally, because I happened to take an elective course.
I bet that that a mjority of CS Phds have no idea what transactions
are or why they are so important. Sigh.
--Jim Fulton