um, they actually did #4 at a job I once worked at. It did work, for a
while :)
"why do we need a DBA? nothing ever goes wrong"
and my favorite generalized programming one (yes, I had a boss who
really said this)
"I hate to waste time on design, I think we should just start coding"
- "Jamadagni, Rajendra" <Rajendra.Jamadagni_at_espn.com> wrote:
> My humble suggestions
>
> 1. CBO doesn't work ... (well it failed 3 years ago when I compiled a
> Forms
> 3.0 form against 803 database, so it is STILL true).
>
> 2. Writing reusable code is not good, it is waste of time.
>
> 3. Exception handling ... Oracle is pretty good are reporting them
> ...
>
> 4. We need to get a larger box with 32 CPUs and 16TB of disk and 32GB
> of
> RAM, that will make our application run faster
>
> 5. Application code is already optimal since I wrote it in 7.2, no
> need to
> revisit the code for our upgrade to 9i, it will optimize itself.
>
> 6. You DBA guys are overly overrated ...
>
> 7. Once Table with 32 columns, 28 are indexed in 17 different indexes
> on the
> table and this (highly transactional inserts, updates) table is used
> by
> at-least 10 users at any given time ... the developer thinks "this
> design is
> perfect"
>
> Whew ... I feel better now ...
> Raj
> ______________________________________________________
> Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc.
> Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com
> Any opinion expressed here is personal and doesn't reflect that of
> ESPN Inc.
>
> QOTD: Any clod can have facts, but having an opinion is an art!
> >
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