somewhere around 2004 we pump into Oracle 5 million customers & product data (basically whole telecom company customers portfolio, quite complicated relational data) in around half an hour. Table partitioning and tiny java program to manage parallel pl/sql scripts running and migration steps transitions.
nope,I think that's was just to add some pressure on protesters. Telecom companies even told that security forces was use fake cells to broadcast those messages
Dude, thinking is not going to change what is going on there. EU wants the civil war in Ukraine, its organisation is paid. "Protesters" are just per-hour hired guys, professional street muscles. Germany wants half of Ukraine. And it always wanted. There is nothing you can do about it.
And poor security forces are the guys who are ordered to wipe "protesters" to keep Ukraine whole body and not becoming Sudan with Russian winter. I can only pray they succeed. Winters are harsh in Kiev.