Re: Do I Need A DBMS or Data Warehouse??

In article <66qqe2$96l$7@nntp3.interaccess.com>, "Christopher J. Wood" <cjwood@interaccess.com> writes > >Hi, > >We are experiencing, what I seem to think, very poor performance. > >We need to do a ot of look-ups and reports. > >We don't need to do a lot of inputs, or data/order entry. > >I was thinking that maybe we need to take a data warehouse or DSS >approach. > >I have been told that conventional DBMSes are good at accomodating a lot >of transactions ("getting data into the system"), but not good at >letting information get extracted. > >Any opnions here? > >Thank you! > >Chris > > You probably just have some indexes missing. Or should be using fragmentation. What are the programs written in? Do you have access to the source code?. -- David Williams