Re: COMMIT NOWAIT Performance Option

On 2/28/07, J. Andrew Rogers <jrogers@neopolitan.com> wrote:
> A popular alternative to CRC32 for this purpose is the significantly
> cheaper and almost as effective is the Adler32 algorithm.  I know
> Google used this algorithm when they added checksumming to their
> database to tame inexplicable transient corruption.

Last time I checked, Teradata used a modified Fletcher checksum as
well; I wasn't aware of Adler32.

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