Oldest recorded transaction
Oldest recorded transaction The other day I posted a tweet with this image which I thought was funny: This is the oldest transaction database from 3100 BC - recording accounts of malt and barley groats. Considering this thing survived 5000 years (holy shit!) with zero downtime and has stronger durability guarantees than most databases today. I call it rock solid durability. This got me thinking, can I insert this date in today’s database? What is the oldest timestamp a database can support?