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You know, this is great for Stripe and all, but it makes me shudder to think the size of databases at, say, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, etc. Must be humongous
by arenaninja 11y ago
You know, this is great for Stripe and all, but it makes me shudder to think the size of databases at, say, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, etc. Must be humongous
- jerven 11y agoThree years one of the DBA's at Credit Suisse mentioned that their DB for their most important business line DB was 150 TB in size. Can't remember anymore if that was an oracle installation, or Sybase... So this is gossip level info...
- afarrell 11y agoAnd flubbing that migration means that people lose their houses.
- scott_karana 11y agoDoubtful. Banks have effectively infinite piles of paper trails, and I suspect they have many, many backups in a variety of other forms as well. They're strongly risk averse, and they are going to strongly try to avoid culpability. Nobody would lose their houses, but their IT staff would lose man-years of sleep, and people in many departments would probably be fired after the smoke settled.