Re: Delete Only 50 rows from table

Obnoxio The Chav wrote: > Dirk Gunsth'vel said: > >>But if they REALLY want it? > > > If they REALLY want it, I'll give it to them. All the way. > > But as to their computer systems, no-one WANTS a pile of fetid steaming > dingoes' kidneys. They've just been lumbered with a mess because some > in-bred half-wit didn't do his job properly. > > What irks me beyond my ability to express is when customers decide to > chuck squillions of dollars/euros/pounds/dongs in hardware or cacheing > bollocks at any given issue, because it's "lower risk" than fixing the > root cause (99 times out of 100, it's some crap code.) > > So, in a year's time, when the hardware runs out of steam, they have to do > it all again. If they'd listened to some sense and fixed the root cause, > they'd be running happily on their old systems, instead of having thrown > money at it, over and over. > > Case in point: I have two customers A and B, I've been consulting to them > both for years now. Customer A listens to me (and other relevant technical > consultants) and implements recommendations. They get the expected life > (and some more) out of their systems. They rarely have performance (or any > other) issues, because they take preventative action before issues bite > them. Customer B, I don't know why they pay for my time, they never listen > to me. They've had more crises and chucked more hardware at their > environment than anyone I've ever met. I can't even get my head around > their hardware infrastructure any more, but I'm sure that if they listened > to me when I started talking to them about their specific issues, they'd > still be running a couple of boxes and routers. > > I'm very unpopular at customer B, because I don't accept their approach to > their IT and question it at every opportunity. It is wrong to just say: > "the customer wants it, so that's what we have to do." If you don't > challenge them, they're never going to fix it, and you're going to become > an accomplice in causing yourself more pain. > > Blimey. I must be annoyed or something. > *lol* In my heart I agree. If any of your customers call into IBM support, are they willing to accept: "Sorry we cannot accept this PMR, IDS/XPS/DB2 is slow because your design sucks. You are stressing the system in a way it was not designed" That poor L1 support guy can try with a carrot IFF he/she spends enough time with the customer to recognise the design flaw, but that's it ;-) While you may be able to afford to pick customers who listen, a vendor has no such liberty. Best folks like I can do is try to not give customers bad ideas they didn't have on their own... Cheers Serge Experienced Optimist -- Serge Rielau DB2 SQL Compiler Development IBM Toronto Lab