Re: Merge

From: Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 11:40:01 -0500
Message-ID: <AANLkTilpY3WhDyZVX5nadct8Awe5lNLrcJXib7bPNzBB_at_mail.gmail.com>

I blame it on Java objects. In many cases, Java programmers literally do not know how to modify their SQL code that is generated from their java code generator.

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Goulet, Richard <Richard.Goulet_at_parexel.com
> wrote:

> Greg,
>
> Yes things are that bad out here in the field, and management is
> totally blind to what is going on. Why, because the duhveloper makes
> the application work as expected by management no matter how much work
> and resources he burns in the background, especially when his/her
> manager doesn't have to pay for those resources. In the case I'm
> working on the view definitions that the duhvelopers came up with are so
> hideous that they perform badly at best individually, even worse when
> combined to the point where having locally replicated versions of the
> data, even un-indexed, performs much better. Now that fact has been the
> cause of other problems with standby databases that have poor
> communication to our datacenter, but does that force a fix to the
> underlying problem? NO because someone else pays for bandwidth
> improvements or better yet then simply push the problem back on the DBA
> group which then ties up an entire person for a week repairing a standby
> db. Now I'm trying to get the underlying problems fixed & I get one
> manager complaining to my manager that I'm poking my nose in where it
> does not belong. Bother, what a pain in the backside.
>
>
> Dick Goulet
> Senior Oracle DBA/NA Team Lead
> PAREXEL International
>
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> Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 3:37 PM
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> Subject: Re: Merge
>
> Apologies in advance for the slight diversion from the OP, but I can't
> help but read this thread (and others of similar context) and think to
> myself: "IT is so broken in so many companies". Management really
> needs to make "duhvelopers" fix their broken code. Period. It's no
> wonder that DBAs feel over burdened and don't have time to investigate
> new technologies/features/etc. -- their time is consumed with stop gap
> fixes day after day.
>
> Fixing things at the top of the stack is so much easier and so much
> more cost effective. Time to get with the program.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Greg Rahn
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