Greg Smith, after a suggestion of James Bruce
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With statement-based replication middleware, a program intercepts
every SQL query and sends it to one or all servers. Each server
- operates independently. Read-write queries are sent to all servers,
- while read-only queries can be sent to just one server, allowing
- the read workload to be distributed.
+ operates independently. Read-write queries must be sent to all servers,
+ so that every server receives any changes. But read-only queries can be
+ sent to just one server, allowing the read workload to be distributed
+ among them.
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