Re: What affects performance?

Dave Findley Quothe, (but left out all the other groups). > > > Jack Parker (jparker@hpbs3645.boi.hp.com) wrote: > > >Paul Brown (pbrown@triplerock.Berkeley.EDU) wrote: > >>: Bill Miller (turboman@teal.csn.org) wrote: > >>: These are *really* asnine question. > > > >There is no such thing as an asinine question. Just asinine responses. > > >That is, I think you should have let him down a little more gently. :-) > >>: I think I'll invoke --'s Laws; > > Jack, and All: > > I agree 100%. This sort sort of information can be useful. It should be > pulled together and put into the Informix FAQ. Or, better yet, added to the > overall "comp.databases" FAQ, as it does go across different RDMS systems. > What say Paul, do you want to write up --'s Laws? But more seriously, Paul and the other posters made some very valid points. What the original requestor was asking for was a white paper on performance, or rather the basis to write one. Such a paper would be not terribly useful unless you were working on your thesis. Tuning a system for performance is an art form and varies with what your system is required to do. Purchasing a system based on such notes would be equally silly. For example: What's faster a Maserati or a schoolbus? But are you trying to win the Indy 500 or move people from point a to point b? Sure the Maserati can get there 3 times faster but it can only carry two people. I am now supposed to read a white paper which states this? Sure it's possible to document in general what makes a system fast. But how high is the sky? I'm not saying that such a paper is impossible, nor that I would not be interested in reading it. Just that it would be like graduating somebody with a CS degree who knew all about code, but didn't know what a file was. I mean - how else is (s)he going to get out of jail free? cheers j. _____________________________________________________________________________ Jack Parker | Hewlett Packard, BSMC Boise, Idaho, USA| Someday you'll go far, jparker@hpbs3645.boi.hp.com | if you catch the right train. (208) 396-5388 (W) (208) 384-1623 (H) | _____________________________________________________________________________ Any opinions expressed herein are my own and not those of my employers. _____________________________________________________________________________