> I think we lost the plot as an industry I get your point, but generally with most enterprise-scale apps you really don’t want your transactional DB doubling

> I think we lost the plot as an industry I get your point, but generally with most enterprise-scale apps you really don’t want your transactional DB doubling as your data warehouse. The “push-based” operation should be limited to moving data from your tx environment to your analytical one. Of course, if the “analytics” are limited to simple static reports, then a data warehouse is overkill.