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videoappeal on Feb 15, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: MySQL Cluster 7.2 GA Released, Delivers 1 Billion ...

When did we go from standard measure of per second for these types of things, you know, requests per second, transactions per second, to per minute? Statistics eh?

wmf on Feb 15, 2012 [–]

For whatever reason, database people have been using transactions per minute for a long time.

robryan on Feb 15, 2012 | [–]

I was thinking it might have been to prevent people using max queries per second even if it is unsustainable. Although an average should cover that.

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