Digging Deeper
I hope I’ve whetted your appetite for Mnesia. Mnesia is a very powerful DBMS. It has been in production use in a number of demanding telecom applications delivered by Ericsson since 1998.
Since this is a book about Erlang and not Mnesia, I can’t really do any more than just give a few examples of the most common ways to use Mnesia. The techniques I’ve shown in this chapter are those I use myself. I don’t actually use (or understand) much more than what I’ve shown you. But with what I’ve shown you, you can have a lot of fun and build some pretty sophisticated applications.
The main areas I’ve omitted are as follows:
- Backup and recovery
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Mnesia has a range of options for configuring backup operations, allowing for different types ...
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