Re: Single vs. Multiple Sequences

From: Holger Baer <holger.baer_at_science-computing.de>
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 18:35:12 +0200
Message-ID: <dfsdk1$1aa$1@news.BelWue.DE>

Tony Andrews wrote:
> Holger Baer wrote:
>

>>But your point still stands. Why do people never test? Is it so
>>hard to use that grey mass between the ears for something else
>>than heat the blood?

>
>
> Up to a point. But on the other hand, it would seem silly for people
> to spend their entire careers setting up complicated becnhmarks to find
> out for themselves the answer to questions for which a definitive
> answer has already been found and documented by others, right? There
> is a balance to be found surely.
>

Fair enough.

But after you've found the answer (hopefully including a test case), you have to test in *your* environment anyway.

You know, it seems to me, that there are more and more people asking: I have this really slow query, if I change this and that, will it go faster? How complicated is it to try? And by thinking about the problem and trying to find a test case, for which you incidentally should be able to tell what outcome you expect, you stop just poking around and start doing stuff the right way.

That's anyway what I meant.

Cheers,
Holger Received on Fri Sep 09 2005 - 11:35:12 CDT