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

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>> 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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