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