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Ten days ago my mate's dog died. I was so very fond of that absurd little creature. I've lost very few people that I care about so I don't have much to compare with, but the little creature's death hit me really so hard, more so than with any person. I have heard that the death of a pet can hit harder than that of a person, and that's what I seem to have found much to my astonishment. Has anyone found the same?

You're actually right because casting my mind back, I can remember exactly the same kind of thing happening in places I worked for. I specifically remember discovering a race condition because they didn't understand about locking/trans iso levels.

Nonetheless if you're going to base your company's product around a database or anything else for that matter, you really had better get yourself sorted out WRT your tools, or it can become horribly expensive to fix or even fatal to your company.

> So this works not that differently to an index

Yes, it's pretty much the same as a covering index is used

> There's also materialized views

Ah yes, that's pretty much the answer (if incrementally updated). Thanks.

(Posted under a different account because I'm being slow-posted again by HN)

> In theory, the DBMS itself could directly support 'physical denormalization' and make this performance optimisation easier to implement and transparent to the application code. I think some SQL DBMSs have attempted to do things like this.

Automatically managed, application-transparent, physical denormalisation entirely managed by the database is something I am very, very interested in. Unfortunately I've been able to find pretty well nothing to describe what it would look like and how it would be done. If you can provide any links that would be so incredibly helpful!

It gets mentioned in the Date/Darwen books as being the right way to do things, but no actual information seems to be given.

Genuninely curious, why do you say g_d not god?

If the author's reading this, please consider whether a picture of a video cassette was really of value, and if it was please don't put in a bloody great 2MB image.

Brit here. Garbage. I have simply told the mixed US/UK company I worked for that they had no rights over a personal project of mine and they were cool with that. By your dismissive, failure-assured attitude I can guess that you've never tried.

> Surrender ...but certainly better than "losing".

Ukraine thinks otherwise.

You could have replaced your two paragraphs with two words, "Ukraine, surrender".

However I disagree. To broad-brush it, I think Ukraine's war is a just war (as in morally justified).

Brit here. I'm with you. There's going to be pain either some now, or more later if this disease is allowed to grow. I'll take it now, and it won't be as much as the poor buggers in Ukraine are currently suffering, not by a long way.