Re: Deadly sins againts database performance/scalability

In article <91884734.0312041722.4d009fac_at_posting.google.com>, joel-garry_at_home.com (Joel Garry) wrote:

>The particular environment I was referring to was a very large
>permanent shop with permanent employees. They had bought an off the
>shelf package and had a large effort to modify it to their purposes,
>both with contractors and permanent employees. In fact, there were
>two large shops, in competition to do the same thing. One shop was
>using a layered approach, putting all new objects in separate schemata
>with private synonyms, while the other hacked away. They both were
>using Oracle tools to reverse-engineer the product, and both were
>traditional top-down shops, newly coming to Oracle from COBOL, and
>neither had the type of dba that would be necessary for what we are
>discussing here. Eventually one shops methodology took over, due to
>political reasons. Somehow, it all got done, albeit slowly. Which is
>a lot more than can be said for their DW project.
>
>"Management problem" is an understatement.

You are describing my personal nightmare... one that I've fought tooth and nail against from the bottom up. I believe we could design and develop a brand new system that'd be as good or better than what you'd end up with by buying and extensively modifying something. My personal bias. Received on Fri Dec 05 2003 - 15:52:39 CST