Re: "Transactions are bad, real bad" - discuss

"Pablo Sanchez" <pablo_at_dev.null> wrote in message news:Xns937556862E802pingottpingottbah_at_216.166.71.233...
> "Paul Vernon" <paul.vernon_at_ukk.ibmm.comm> wrote in
> news:b9d553$48gi$2_at_gazette.almaden.ibm.com:
>
> > "Pablo Sanchez" <pablo_at_dev.null> wrote in message
> > news:Xns9373EB0EF7592pingottpingottbah_at_216.166.71.233...
> > [snip]
> >> My school of thought is that a DBMS shouldn't be the end-all
> >> solution.
> >
> > I would be genuinely interested in knowing why you think that. Do
> > you have any deep reasons?
>
> Cost. The more burden you place on the DBMS, the more hardware you're
> going to need to run it. The more hardware, the more power. The more
> power, the better the power conditioner, more AC, probably more
> operation room floor space, etc.

Fair enough. Not a very theoretical reason, but a reason nonetheless.

However, I might suggest that removing unnecessary layers such as 'application severs' would reduce the total amount of hardware needed.

I'm a believer in "More's law": For 99% of business applications, we probably had more than enough computing power a few years ago, we certainly have more than enough computing power today and will have much much more that enough in the future. It's all we can do to write software bad enough to use all the power we currently get given.

;-)

Regards
Paul Vernon
Business Intelligence, IBM Global Services Received on Thu May 08 2003 - 10:31:34 CDT