Practical situation where this did apply.
one of my clients had a simultaneous RAID and SAN failure (hardware).
had the tran log not been truncated for the previous day (as the latest was corrupted as a result of the raid failure), only 2 hours work would have been lost, and not 3 days.
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Space, the final frontier? not any more...
All limits henceforth are self-imposed.
“libera tute vulgaris ex”