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

From: "Kenneth Naim" <kennethnaim@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <norman.dunbar.capgemini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "'Jonathan Lewis'" <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:13:52 -0400

>>There must be some good and well written apps out there! Somewhere?

There are good applications out there but the better and more expensive the
dba/developer is, the less likely he/she is to run into it on his/her
travels, as they will not need emergency tuning as either the vendor or the
company has sufficient quality dba's/developers to support them. This is
true regardless if the dba/developer is full time or a consultant as this
systems would get the least exposure as they are the problem free ones.
Firefighters rarely look at houses not on fire.

Ken


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From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Dunbar, Norman (Capgemini)
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 4:49 AM
To: Jonathan Lewis; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Slightly-OT: Throw HW at a SW/DB problem

Morning Jonathan,

<SNIP>

>> The logical fix is sometimes simple, the necessary code change tends
to be 
>> harder - unless you catch it very early.
True. And so far, in the contracts I've been on, the only time I see a
database, as a production DBA, is when the thing has passed through the
myriad layers of management and so on, and then it goes live. The money has
been paid, the contracts signed - and we are stuck with it.

I've had multi-user systems running "SELECT MAX()+1" queries on the database
to get the next "sequence" because the application is "database neutral". I
already mentioned that everything I see has a parse:execute ratio of 1:1.

There must be some good and well written apps out there! Somewhere?
Surely? One day, perhaps, I'll come across one.


Cheers,
Norm.


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References:
- Re: Slightly-OT: Throw HW at a SW/DB problem
  - From: Jonathan Lewis
- RE: Slightly-OT: Throw HW at a SW/DB problem
  - From: Dunbar, Norman (Capgemini)

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