management was heavily invested in making the system go live "as is"...
since they were heavily involved with the design. They designed it without a
DBA.
OLTP system, main order table had 23 indexes on it. Because they wanted to
be able to search by customer first name, customer last name, recipient
first name, recipient last name .... and had foreign keys all over the
place.
Ah, but I am so much the better for NOT being there anymore!
>From: "Deshpande, Kirti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: Veritas Quick I/0 and Oracle/ Asycnchronous I/O
>Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 06:55:29 -0800
>
> > What's wrong with that picture?
>
> You are telling them what they do not wish/want to listen ;)
> And I am making the same 'mistake'....
>
>- Kirti
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rachel Carmichael [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 7:50 AM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > Subject: Re: Veritas Quick I/0 and Oracle/ Asycnchronous I/O
> >
> > Jared wrote:
> >
> > >I just *had* to point this out. Had too many damagers want to solve
> > >everything by buying HW when they have no idea what the problem is.
> > >
> >
> > how about Sun E650, 26 CPUs (yes, I said 26), 9GB RAM
> >
> > made the application fly. Until we hit THE ultimate peak stress day and
> > they died. I had spent the year prior screaming about how the
>application
> > needed some serious rewrite or we would die on that day. Database had
>been
> >
> > "designed" (if you can call it that) by people who did not know Oracle
>and
> >
> > so recreated their flat file system.
> >
> > They told me that the reason we died was because I had not done my job
> > properly.
> >
> > What's wrong with that picture?
> >
> >
> >
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