[quote user="doublereedkurt"] I had talked to the professor, but she was very adamant that the point of the project was to force people to work together in a group. [/quote]That sounds very familiar, in fact, that same "point" b0rked my Data Structures final grading. We were random...

[quote user="Renan "C#" Sousa"]Even for distributed systems I think this would still be a WTF. I'm quite sure modern DBMS's can be set up to avoid key replication in distributed environments.[/quote] Yes, but the beauty of this thread so far are all the people arguing against...