Re: Anyone with experience with MMOG and databases?

Dougie & Connor

That is why the game needs very quick persistence data store. Thus the quest for quick short I/Os. They will probably be 'bulk' actioned.

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tony

At 10:07 AM 15/08/2005, Connor McDonald wrote:
>Which comes back to one of my favourite quotes.
>
>A past client implemented a public-facing system (100% Java) which had
>all the bells and whistles for the end-user - whizz bang graphics,
>heaps of automation of the regular tasks they had to do etc, but
>terrible usage and understanding of the underlying Oracle database.
>We pointed out that data integrity was sortta important but they
>forged on and went live anyway...
>
>Net result - front page of the newspapers with people getting other
>people's information, sent to the wrong address, with the wrong
>details etc etc etc...
>
>In the subsequent crisis meeting I asked:
>
>"What percentage data integrity do we have?"
>
>Funny... I always thought it was a boolean.
>
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