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by b5n 2148 days ago
> Mixing OLTP and OLAP becomes increasingly "normal"

Just because it's "normal" doesn't mean it's correct. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

All hail bob1029:

> We aren't running any reports on our databases like this. I would argue it is a bad practice in general to mix OLTP and OLAP workloads on a single database instance, regardless of the specific technology involved.