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>Hey, don't knock throwing massive amounts of cpus and memory and disk
at an
>application design problem to make it go away! That's what they did
at a
>prior job.... I said 'the design is lousy, you will have performance
>problems' (they designed the app without a DBA and without knowing
Oracle...
>best way to design systems, right? who needs to know how things
*work*?)

>They said "more power".... and we had 26 CPUs and 9GB of RAM.. thing
>screamed. Until they hit their peak sales time... and performance went
>through the floor.

>Gee, you think maybe I knew what I was talking about?

Hi Rachel,

Seems like the time I was told to configure a S80 (record-breaking top of the line IBM RS/6000 box) to overcome a query problem that took 45 mins to run. Couldn't fiddle with the SQL as this was third party, but just re-created some bad indexes and the thing ran in 8 mins! Now we are looking at a very low cost 270 Workstation to run a CPU-only (very intensive array manipulation) part of that job which will be backended by an existing SP Node with SSA disks.

I am not very popular with the IBM sales rep nowadays on account of the lost sale. (And did I mention that I also don't get any of the $$ saved by NOT buying the S80??)

John Kanagaraj
Brunei Shell Petroleum
http://www.geocities.com/john_sharmila

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 From: "Marin Dimitrov" <marin_at_sirma.bg>  Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 11:36:33 +0300 Received on Thu Jul 13 2000 - 02:52:39 CDT