"The Consular Consolidated Database (CCD) is one of the largest Oracle based data warehouses in the world that holds current and archived data from the Consular Affairs (CA) domestic and post databases around the world. As of December 2009, it contains over 100 million visa cases and 75 million photographs, utilizing billions of rows of data, and has a current growth rate of approximately 35 thousand visa cases every day"
Unclear what's gone wrong this time, but the mention of "biometrics" (like photographs) makes me suspect it's the same system.
http://foia.state.gov/_docs/PIA/ConsularConsolidatedDatabase...
"The Consular Consolidated Database (CCD) is one of the largest Oracle based data warehouses in the world that holds current and archived data from the Consular Affairs (CA) domestic and post databases around the world. As of December 2009, it contains over 100 million visa cases and 75 million photographs, utilizing billions of rows of data, and has a current growth rate of approximately 35 thousand visa cases every day"
Unclear what's gone wrong this time, but the mention of "biometrics" (like photographs) makes me suspect it's the same system.