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From Jonah H. Harris
Subject Re: COMMIT NOWAIT Performance Option
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Msg-id 36e682920702281906g5971e1ex1209142c451b02e3@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: COMMIT NOWAIT Performance Option  ("J. Andrew Rogers" <jrogers@neopolitan.com>)
Responses Re: COMMIT NOWAIT Performance Option  ("Jonah H. Harris" <jonah.harris@gmail.com>)
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On 2/28/07, J. Andrew Rogers <jrogers@neopolitan.com> wrote:
> A popular alternative to CRC32 for this purpose is the significantly
> cheaper and almost as effective is the Adler32 algorithm.  I know
> Google used this algorithm when they added checksumming to their
> database to tame inexplicable transient corruption.

Last time I checked, Teradata used a modified Fletcher checksum as
well; I wasn't aware of Adler32.

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