At today's keynote by Mark Callaghan one of the new options he
talked about are table change logs. He mentioned they might be of
use to external applications, like Flexviews, which he mentioned
but not directly. He asked if the guy who wrote it was in the
audience, so I got to wave my hand and yell 'Flexviews!'.
I caught up with Mark at the Facebook party this evening. I had a
chance to talk to him not only about the change logs, but also
about Kickfire and the SQL chip. He asked me what I thought about
working at Kickfire and I smiled and said I love it. I think I
said "I've never been able to join a billion row table to a
hundred million row table, sort, group and get results back in
less than a minute" and I'm sure the smile never left my
face.
As far as the table change logs, he verified:
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- The global transaction id will be stored in the table
- OLD and NEW …