Jared, yes it reminds me of burning peat. But since I am not the one drinking it, I don't care what it tastes like. Me, I'm debating the merits of a Brooklyn Pennant '55 Pale ale or a nice large glass of Glenmorangie.. hm maybe tonight is a Macallan's night?
Been that sort of week. Rachel --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hmmph. Topics like this on a Friday make me want to dig deeper > into > > my toolbox (the malted compartment of course). > > I'm having similar feelings. Time to break out the Lagavulin > tonight. > > And Rachel, yes, I know it reminds you of burning peat. > > Maybe I *like* burning peat. :) > > Re the rewrite of the OOP App I mentioned: A developer that was > intimately > familiar with the inner workings of the app ( he inherited it ) and > myself > offered > to do the rewrite in 2 months. They spent $1M+ on the app, and > didn't > appreciate > a couple of Oracle hacks telling them it could be rewritten for $25k, > and > several > orders of magnitude faster. > > Jared > > > > > > > Robert Eskridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 03/08/02 02:43 PM > Please respond to ORACLE-L > > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > cc: > Subject: Re[2]: Strangeness > > > Jared, > > Yeah, they don't want to hear about PL/SQL because then they can't > scale it up on the middle tier where they can have dozens of machines > with the same poorly written app simultaneously pounding the database > thousands of times more intensely than the task requires.... > > Hmmph. Topics like this on a Friday make me want to dig deeper into > my toolbox (the malted compartment of course). > > -rje > > J> Lee, > > J> I've had similar experiences. > > J> The problem is not PRO*C, but how the program is designed. > > J> Is it by any chance written in C++? I once had the 'privilege' of > J> administering an the databases for an application written in C++. > J> The software featured and award winning design, literaly. The OOP > J> design was honored in some OOP magazine. > > J> When you consider though that this wonderful OOP design treated > every > J> piece of data from the database as atomic, and retrieved them that > way, > J> you can begin to see the problem. > > J> The average SQL*Net packet size was 200 bytes, sub optimal to say > the > J> least. This is because the app preferred to retrieve it's own > information > > J> from the database and do the joins in the software. > > J> In a couple of hours this app could process all of 10k > transactions, > and > J> generate several million TCP/IP packets in the process. > > J> I suggested they move the app to the database server: this > resulted in > J> a 40% decrease in runtime. > > J> We offered to rewrite the whole thing in PL/SQL, but that was a > J> politically incorrect suggestion. > > > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > -- > Author: Robert Eskridge > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 > San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing > Lists > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > > > > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > -- > Author: > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 > San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing > Lists > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/ -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Rachel Carmichael INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
