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Recursive queries in slow database

From: Dr. Coffee <dr.coffee1_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 05:38:27 -0800 (PST)
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Hi all.



I am the user of a database, which is ridiculously slow for
even the simplest queries.  The vendor of the db soes a lot
of stuff that I am deeply suspicious of:



    
  
  •   They don't hire staff with SW/dB experience, but general
  MSc's and give them OJT.

  
  •   They have had no resources to provide proper OJT on SW/dbs

  
  •   They use one generic db model with a large number of clients

  
  •   Because of the generic architecture they use variables to
  indicate data type in the table, slowing queries down

  
  •   They claim to have come up with a particular nifty trick
  for recursive calls into the db, that they claim to be
  sole users of






All in all, I suspect these people are amateurs and dillettantes
who have no idea what they are doing. I would love to hire pros
to re-do the work these people are not able to, but in order to
do that I will need to come up with convincing arguments to
support a claim that there are severe problems.



Any hints on how to proceed?



DoC
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