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bad idea to use the DB as a queue

Not according to Jim Gray. See "THESIS: Queues are Databases"[1][2]

1- http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=6849...

2- (pdf) http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/69641/tr-95-56.pdf

Tnx for the link. nice read. There is a difference though, in using something as "a Queue" and using something as an AMQP implementation when it's clearly not that.

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