Re: Delete Only 50 rows from table

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. -- Bye now, Obnoxio "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche "I'm trying to see things your way, but I can't get my head up my ass" - JCH "Ogni uomo mi guarda come se fossi una testa di cazzo" - Marco Travel broadens a person. You look as if you have been all over the world. I went to the airport to check in and they asked what I did because I looked like a terrorist. I said I was a comedian. They said, "Say something funny then." I told them I had just graduated from flying school. -- Ahmed Ahmed http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y41/Obnoxio/thinkIfoundtheproblem.jpg sending to informix-list

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