if we do an apples to apples, with the developer testing with a realistic
data set and test environment -- i'd still give a lot more then 0.1% margin
of error to the CBO. what i've think you may have identified is the CBO
becoming a better safety net for developers that don't (or can't) test
adaquately
"Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message
news:1066949637.846158_at_yasure...
> mcstock wrote:
>
> >never say never
> >
> >as the CBO improves, hints may be needed less
> >
> >however we can never say that the CBO will always be smarter than the
> >developer (or that the CBO developers will always be smarter than the
> >application developers)
> >
> >----------------------------------------
> >Mark C. Stock
> >www.enquery.com
> >(888) 512-2048
> >
> >
> True. But I'd venture that 99.9+% of the time the CBO is smarter than
> the developer that
> developers on a DEV instance with a bit of sample data and a few users,
> and then moves
> the application into TEST with six month old clone of a subset of
> production data and a
> dozen users, at most, that then gets moved into the full PROD instance
> with 1000 users
> beating it up full-time 7x24.
>
> --
> Daniel Morgan
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Received on Thu Oct 23 2003 - 20:19:07 CDT
