Re: Dreaming About Redesigning SQL

From: Marshall Spight <mspight_at_dnai.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 08:13:23 GMT
Message-ID: <D4Mlb.2359$9E1.17769@attbi_s52>

"Anthony W. Youngman" <thewolery_at_nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:UGXSKIAGbtk$EwW3_at_thewolery.demon.co.uk...

> As soon as a requirement for a database specifies extraction of the
> maximum power from the box,

I don't for a second believe that this is your only requirement, or that this is even an actual requirement. If it really is an actual requirement, then I assume you're writing all of your code in hand-tuned assembly language, and that the document you consult most regularly when writing code is the CPU's instruction timing table.

Another commodity box costs $1000, which is about the same as the cost to a company of a day's programmer time.

What *really* matters is getting software delivered in a timely fashion, that is as correct as possible, and that will operate reliably over time and not cause data corruption.

Marshall Received on Thu Oct 23 2003 - 03:13:23 CDT