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People often say SQL has no problem to scale but they've never actually done it (sopuli.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

So there was this QA tester filling a million documents in the database (NOSQL) and then using a single fetch to get all the data without pagination and then telling me my library was first being slow and then crashing.

Of course I didn't handle std::bad_alloc