Re: Lest we forget

Roger,

        Good point to you too. Any untuned app can nuke an OS, but reverse is also true. I wasn't suggesting that throwing bucks and hardware at an rdbms was a sole solution, but merely another avenue to explore. If I did not adequately tune an OS and a server and the related network client/server connections, etc., then I've not done my job. If you tune them all, it ALWAYS runs better. Of course, this does depend on having an OS that is tunable :)

                Tom

Roger Snowden wrote:
>
> Good points. Don't forget, however, that most of the performance issues
> for the typical transaction processing client/server system are application
> related. Like, runaway queries, full table scans, cartesian joins,
> non-selective indices, etc. Sometimes we get all caught up in the intrigue
> of OS and server tuning when the real problem is all the crap we are
> throwing at the engine to begin with.
>
> Just a thought.
Received on Wed Jan 29 1997 - 00:00:00 CST