> Are you seriously saying you could sit down in front a reasonably sized DB > you had never seen before and understand all the business issues and pick it > up and ship to a new RDBMS and platform, rewrite the document, replan what I
Absolutely not. I am saying that if I am tasked with developing a NEW database of any size (10 tables or 100 tables or more) and you tell me UP FRONT, "we'd like to be able to port this MSSQL database to MySQL" the system can be designed to make the "port" very painless. > I am not saying it's a huge task to do any of this but whoever said, "I > could do it in a couple of hours", doesn't understand the background that > led to a company quoting E18k; nor do any of us, and for anything other than > a very very trivial system, two hours seems inadequate. You're correct, I don't understand the background that led to a company quoting 18,000 euro -- that's what we're trying to figure out. On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Tony Buckley wrote: > > > > I still don't agree with this. Yes you can ease the passage by considering > all the issues up front but it is still not a trivial job for a database of > any consequence. There is more to a database than a physical schema - what > about all the administration procedures that sit around it, what about > tuning the new physical implementation, what about reviewing the access > paths and optimisation, what about the redevelopment of data loading > scripts. As I have said in another post, it's futile arguing about it > because we don't know enough about the technical situation let the > business/political one. > > Are you seriously saying you could sit down in front a reasonably sized DB > you had never seen before and understand all the business issues and pick it > up and ship to a new RDBMS and platform, rewrite the document, replan what I > have stated above, and get it back up and running in two hours? Perhaps I > am getting too old and slow but it would take me longer :-) > > I am not saying it's a huge task to do any of this but whoever said, "I > could do it in a couple of hours", doesn't understand the background that > led to a company quoting E18k; nor do any of us, and for anything other than > a very very trivial system, two hours seems inadequate. > > This is an area that interests me, because I directly bid for work such as > this, and when tendering you usually find the bloke down the road working > out of his spare bedroom that thinks he can do it for a tenner over one day. > The company requesting the work then thinks that everyone else is > overinflating their prices so goes cheap and pays for it big time > downstream. Cheapest and quickest is rarely best. On the flip side, nor is > most expensive. Tricky world init. > > Tony > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
