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On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 09:19:42 +0100, Sybrand Bakker wrote:
> On 15 Dec 2005 22:36:16 -0800, "ORA600" <panandrao_at_gmail.com> wrote: >
> > > This is truely a sad post. Yet another advocate of 'throwing iron at > the problem' ie symptom fighting, instead of curing the problem. > > If you have a R/W intensive application, and the customer doesn't want > to resolve the problem (because the app has been developed by an > incompetent 3rd party vendor), NOTHING can help you, only PRAYER, > there is some justice in Heaven (and the customer will suffer so > badly, he can't deny the facts anymore)
Sometimes, given the price of HW, hardware upgrade is cheaper then a good DBA/performance analyst and it does make the most of sense from the commercial point of view. If better performance can be achieved by spending additional $10,000 for a box, why bother with consultants? Application themselves have limited age and have to be rewritten almost from scratch every few years. If the application is technologically out of date, written by using Forte, Jam or some other "application generator", then letting it run on a stronger box might carry the company until the complete rewrite in Java or .NOT can be financially justified to the senior management. I'm sorry to say, but it's all economy. Buck is driving everything.
-- http://www.mgogala.comReceived on Fri Dec 16 2005 - 02:29:20 CST