cs00chs@unccvax.UUCP (charles spell) (08/10/89)
Has anyone with a significant sized project converted a C database library
to SQL? I love the high level, power, and portablility of SQL but due to
performance setbacks, "WE" cannot use SQL.
Try some benchmarks with more than 10 users sometime. Remember, the end user
cares only about the performance (raw speed) of their applications. They
could care less about power, portability, and maintainablility of source.
Disclaimer: this opinion assumes the users do not get into development
for themselves.
Remember, the users are the funders...
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jest another subjective opinionjkrueger@dgis.daitc.mil (Jonathan Krueger) (08/12/89)
cs00chs@unccvax.UUCP (charles spell) writes: >Remember, the end user cares only about the performance (raw speed) of >their applications. They could care less about power, portability, and >maintainablility of source. Disclaimer: this opinion assumes the users >do not get into development for themselves. Users care about access, correctness, usefulness, cost, and performance, in about that order. If you think otherwise, ask yourself why most people don't buy high performance cars. -- Jon
emuleomo@yes.rutgers.edu (Emuleomo) (08/16/89)
cs00chs@unccvax.UUCP (charles spell) writes: >Remember, the end user cares only about the performance (raw speed) of >their applications. They could care less about power, portability, and >maintainablility of source. Disclaimer: this opinion assumes the users >do not get into development for themselves. jkrueger@dgis.daitc.mil (Jonathan Krueger) writes: >Users care about access, correctness, usefulness, cost, and >performance, in about that order. If you think otherwise, ask >yourself why most people don't buy high performance cars. Because they don't have the **MONEY**! I would love to drive a BMW 735i but I can only afford a Toyota.( not Lexus)! Besides, I think the order is correctness, performance/flashiness, cost etc.. This is from personal experience (from developing Foxbase/Ingres based applications!) --Emuleomo O.O. (emuleomo@yes.rutgers.edu) -- ** Research is what I'm doing when I dont know what I'm doing! **
jkrueger@dgis.daitc.mil (Jonathan Krueger) (08/16/89)
Emuleomo writes: >I think the order is correctness, performance/flashiness, cost etc.. No argument. In real life the ordering varies with the application. My point is that performance is just one consideration, usually not even high on the list, seldom first, never the only one. -- Jon -- Jonathan Krueger jkrueger@dgis.daitc.mil uunet!dgis!jkrueger Isn't it interesting that the first thing you do with your advanced powerful color bitmapped windowing workstation on a network is emulate an ASR33?
rleroux1@uvicctr.UVic.ca.UUCP (Roger Leroux) (08/18/89)
In article <21@dgis.daitc.mil> jkrueger@dgis.daitc.mil (Jonathan Krueger) writes: >cs00chs@unccvax.UUCP (charles spell) writes: > >Users care about access, correctness, usefulness, cost, and >performance, in about that order. If you think otherwise, ask >yourself why most people don't buy high performance cars. Close, but not quite. Using your car analogy: the purchaser wants the highest possible performance from his car given a set of constraints. Example, a large family, hence need a van or station wagon. :-) So your selection of constraints is quite correct, but performance would still be paramount to _most_ users. Roger -- Roger Leroux rleroux1@uvicctr.UVic.CA User Services Consultant BITNET: LEROUX@UVVM University of Victoria, Box 1700, Victoria BC, Canada, (604) 721-7687 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
bengtf@sluga.UUCP (Bengt Fredriksson) (12/04/89)
Is there any method to speed up the ... 1. SQL processing (in R:BASE)? 2. UPDATE processing ?