Re: Slightly-OT: Throw HW at a SW/DB problem

  • From: Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: rjoralist2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:50:09 -0500

He forgets a basic rule of data (Murphy's law of databases):

Data will always expand to exceed the capacity of the available resources by
at least 10%.




On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Rich Jesse <
rjoralist2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I think I'm gonna be sick:
>
>
> http://www.sqlmag.com/article/Performancetuning/ssds-performance-tuning-experts-milkman-139591
>
> This mentality **in a database professional** completely escapes me.  It
> brings to mind that I just "upgraded" my Blackberry to one that has 2x the
> CPU and 5x the RAM -- and still works just as bad as the one it replaced
> (if
> not worse).
>
> Anyone from the Oracle camp advocating/predicting hardware-based "tuning"?
>
> Rant over.
>
> Rich
>
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>


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