[videoappeal]

When did we go from standard measure of per second for these types of things, you know, requests per second, transactions per second, to per minute? Statistics eh?

[wmf]

For whatever reason, database people have been using transactions per minute for a long time.

[robryan]

I was thinking it might have been to prevent people using max queries per second even if it is unsustainable. Although an average should cover that.