Exceptions from known best engineering practices happen all the time on production servers. Heck, the entire concept of a "NoSQL" key-value database violates be

Exceptions from known best engineering practices happen all the time on production servers. Heck, the entire concept of a "NoSQL" key-value database violates best practices for database normalization in pursuit of faster performance. Anyone running MySQL in less than an ACID-compliant configuration? Yes? (Like, almost everyone?)