Greg Stark wrote:
> Another option is simply logging this data to a text file. Or multiple text
Yes, this is what we've been doing recently. We write to a set of text
files and there's a process to commit to MySQL every 2-3 minutes (and if
the commit fails, we write to another text file to avoid the data being
lost). It works but I keep thinking how ugly the whole thing is :-)
> files one per server. Then you can load the text files with batch loads
> offline. This avoids slowing down your servers handling the transactions in
> the critical path. But it's yet more complex with more points for failure.
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dave
