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Why can't you just redirect the writes to a new temporary table and join the original and temporary on reads? (I'm not a database admin)

I'm actually interested in this answer as well. I know of a company using a proprietary db and now that their growth has literally exploded, they're stuck with it.

I wonder what literally exploding growth looks like...

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