Good points. ACID is still useful to discuss wrt to database managers,
because there are databases out there which fail to provide the basics, not
just the kind of corner cases discussed re mySQL. In fact, there's a popular
Mac-derived thing popular in vertical market development, called 4th
Dimension, which fails on all 4 counts ;-)
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