Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server From: "Peter J. Holzer" Subject: Re: why administrator refuse to give permission on PLUSTRACE References: <1193401308.533205.210080@50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> <1193440940.512044.231780@v3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> <1193443457.574331.155190@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> <1193465505.205361@bubbleator.drizzle.com> <5oggsqFmq935U1@mid.individual.net> <1193490896.740392@bubbleator.drizzle.com> <47264b0b$0$29254$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:38:49 +0100 User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl2 (Debian) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: zeno.hjp.at X-Trace: 29 Oct 2007 22:48:01 GMT, zeno.hjp.at Lines: 38 Path: text.usenetserver.com!out04b.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!in02.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!club-internet.fr!feedme-small.clubint.net!nuzba.szn.dk!pnx.dk!news.albasani.net!news.wsr.ac.at!zeno.hjp.at!news Xref: usenetserver.com comp.databases.oracle.server:436979 X-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:48:01 EST (text.usenetserver.com) On 2007-10-29 21:05, Matthias Hoys wrote: >> to write *really* good, efficient programs, a programmer >> must see its code executing in production. S/he needs >> to get the feeling, the "haha" experience that only >> confrontation with reality can provide. >> >> Figures and methods are not enough. They are too >> abstract. Whenever a programmer is disconnected from >> reality, most often he'll write sub-optimal programs. >> >> Note that a development system a never a full >> simulation of a production system. > > That's why you need a pre-production environment ... with the same > hardware and data volume as your production environment. The same hardware and data volume isn't the problem. Getting the same users is the problem. > And there are tons of load-simulation programs available (for example > Loadrunner, Winrunner etc). Real users behave very differently from load-simulation programs (unless your load-simulation programs run traces from real users, and even then it's hard to get representative samples). > However, this is the ideal situation :-) Indeed. hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer | It took a genius to create [TeX], |_|_) | Sysadmin WSR | and it takes a genius to maintain it. | | | hjp@hjp.at | That's not engineering, that's art. __/ | http://www.hjp.at/ | -- David Kastrup in comp.text.tex