Internauci przeprowadzili skoordynowany atak DDoS (distributed denial of service), który miał być swego rodzaju “protestem przyszłości” – jak nazwał to wydarzenie Torrent Freak.

First let’s see what Wikipedia says about materialized views:

A materialized view takes a different approach [from the regular sql view] in which the query result is cached as a concrete table that may be updated from the original base tables from time to time. This enables much more efficient access, at the cost of some data being potentially out-of-date. It is most useful in data warehousing scenarios, where frequent queries of the actual base tables can be extremely expensive.

This feature exists in some databases, but we do need a work-around for MySQL, still let’s see if it’s even worthwhile to consider.

All that being said (well quoted), there are a couple of ways to look at this situation…