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ACID describes the properties of reliable database transactions: atomicity, consistency, isolation and durability. The episode contrasts them with Excel files, which offer none of these guarantees for concurrent edits.
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| Wikipedia | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACID |
2026-01-10 · Video on YouTube
Everyone says SQL is obsolete. This episode argues the opposite: SQL has never mattered more—because modern data platforms removed the guardrails that used to hide its importance. In systems like lakehouses and Fabric, T-SQL didn’t disappear; it moved…
The show notes say it ensures data integrity and governance. Features like foreign key lookups and automatic data validation improve reliability, and data is mirrored for consistency with ACID transactions. · From the episode: Fix Bad Data Upstream with T-SQL Contracts
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