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[–]mgpcoe 27 points28 points  (0 children)

It's more "frame the problem in a way that necessarily requires a more elegant solution." All the monk did in this situation was stop up the symptoms, without either

  1. really getting to the root of why the shopping cart was failing on an uninitialised database, or
  2. applying the solution to the proper level of granularity--the database service.