[geeks] my head just went explodey

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 05:32:09PM -0400, geeks at litfire.com wrote:
> Bill Bradford said:
> >You should see the stuff I had to support at $WORK-1.  Telco SLA record
> >keeping database.  Java/Tomcat/etc, using SNMP, talking to Oracle..
> >
> >"Oh?  its slow?  Throw a bigger machine and more RAM at it!"  (this was
> >a dual-300Mhz Sun E250 with 2G of RAM and hardware RAID..)
> >
> >Bloated pig of a product that could have been better and much leaner
> >implemented with PHP or Perl and MySQL.
> 
> You mean the MySQL which doesn't throw up an error on an insert of invalid
> data?

Yes, and the one that modifies data while running a recovery phase as well.

> If you're tracking SLA data, shouldn't you use a database that can be relied
> upon to insert data properly?

PostgreSQL is the answer to most database questions, unless you *need* Oracle.

--Patrick