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I get the joke, but IMO it doesn't pass Durability test, as what is sent to it (i.e. transactions) are not durable.

Durability in ACID is about the durability of the data that is sent to the database (in this ironic post, /dev/null) once committed.

"[...] completed transactions (or their effects) are recorded [...]"

But I will give it that ACI do make sense!

#PedanticMode

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Let's test that:

1. Nothing stored in /dev/null is durable. 2. Nothing is stored in /dev/null. 3. Ergo, /dev/null exhibits durability.

Thank you, I'll take my check at the door.

You are missing the part where the data did exist and that after something/someone sent it to /dev/null, the data was gone. Therefore, the data did not endure. The Durability test of ACID failed for /dev/null.

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