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Data consistency is overrated if your business is ok with that. Many businessed are not ok with that. Example: airline, booking process.

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taeric|3 years ago

Bad examples. Airlines are notorious for having incoherent booking policies. Over selling flights and such.

crazygringo|3 years ago

Overbooking is intentional policy. It has nothing to do with data consistency.

To the contrary, consistency is extremely important so that they overbook by exactly the right amount, to compensate for the statistically expected no-shows.

jhallenworld|3 years ago

How about I order something, but the inventory was off, so I never get my item. This is how you get unhappy customers. You could have buffer inventory to help with your bad system, but then you are tying up money in inventory..

fbdab103|3 years ago

Airlines are notorious for over-booking available seats and dealing with the fallout.

StreamBright|3 years ago

Which is done purposefully and not by data in-consistency at all.