Re: partiioning option not worth it?

Did I say I was going to implement the full functionality.

No.

This is an argument I've heard many times and it's crap.

The alternatives are not: buy an expensive piece of software or duplicate it.
The alternatives are: buy an expensive piece of software or implement the small subset of it that you actually need.

In the project I'm working on this will take 1 day's coding and unit testing.

You can argue that in my case (given we have a corporate licence for EE), the cost saved is "only" £14000. But that's a saving for one developer on one small system, and could have been greater if they'd not already wasted their money on EE. If every member of this particular department avoided a spend of £14,000 that would be £560,000 saved - it is not a small number.

It is my experience that a tremendous amount of money is wasted on expensive software that is not actually required, because people do not understand the 80/20 rule.

damorgan <dan.morgan_at_ci.seattle.wa.us> wrote in message news:3C7590C5.3ABCB1D0_at_ci.seattle.wa.us...
> I don't believe you, or anyone else, can implement the functionality PO
provides
> for the price quoted. Either you don't understand the full functionality
or you
> don't understand the costs involved which are substantially greater than
one
> developer's salary.
>
> Daniel Morgan
>
>
>
>
> Keith Boulton wrote:
>
> > What's your point?
> >
> > damorgan <dan.morgan_at_ci.seattle.wa.us> wrote in message
> > news:3C75697F.9DA1E7B9_at_ci.seattle.wa.us...
> > > With 30+ years in the industry I take strong exception to your
responses
> > below.
> > > Real world experience dictates otherwise unless your IT/IS department
...
> > is
> > > just you.
> > >
> > > Daniel Morgan
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Keith Boulton wrote:
> > >
> > > > Stefan <sroesch3_at_attbi.com> wrote in message
> > > > news:mP3d8.6609$Iw.14214_at_rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net...
> > > >
> > > > > In DW environments it is mandatory.
> > > >
> > > > That's what the salesman wants you to think!
> > > >
> > > > > How will you implement the sliding window technique without
support
> > from
> > > > the
> > > > > database.
> > > > There is (effectively) no difference in this regard between
partitioning
> > and
> > > > building N tables.
> > > >
> > > > > How will you implement automatic partition pruning?
> > > > It's not automatic, but I can do it "manually" for less than £40,000
and
> > > > that's the saving on only one server.
> > > >
> > > > > How will you implement parallel DML? and so on....
> > > > Again, I don't see this a particularly difficult process.
> > > >
> > > > > To conclude that. In DW environments it makes sense to spend that
> > money
> > > > It MAY make sense - but as I've said before, the cost/benefit
> > calculation is
> > > > rarely done.
> > > >
> > > > > you also get further features with the enterprise edition which
are
> > needed
> > > > > in these environments.
> > > > and these would be?
> > >
>
Received on Fri Feb 22 2002 - 02:44:32 CST