Re: Informix vs. Sybase vs. Oracle vs. (gasp) MS SQL Server

> Now here's an example of someone who knows how to think,
> and not only that, has the experience to recognise the issues.
> Gary, I tip my hat to you.

<blush>

Now if I was only good enough to never goof, but last I looked this is still Planet Earth <g>.

> I've worked on a system recently where there used to be contention,
> but I was able to resolve the problem with rather trivial
> changes. Its just as you said Gary - poor forethought, bad
> design, etc. Luckily, I was able to recognise this and identify
> the correct solution and enact it. It isn't exactly hard.
> So why do some of the participants in this debate seem to
> think so?

If I gave a full answer, I wouldn't be able to sit down for a week due to being flamed. <g>
However, if there is a common denominator to contention/design/planning issues, its simply being too rushed and/or too untrained to do a decent job. In a prior life to being a DBA, I learned it painfully.

The extreme level of change in our industry, plus the level of complexity in the average system and its software components, is making it tougher to get a decent product 'out the door'.

Gary Received on Sat Dec 06 1997 - 00:00:00 CET