> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Richard Broersma Jr wrote: > [snip] > > I am not to sure of the relevance, but I periodically worked as a > > sub-contractor for an Oil-producing Company in California. They > > were carrying 35 years of data on an Alpha Server running > > Ca-Ingres. The really bad part is that hundreds and hundreds of > > reporting tables were created on top of the functioning system > > for reporting over the years. Now nobody know which tables are > > relevant and with are redundant and or deprecated. > > > > Also year after year, new custom text file reports were created > > with procedural scrips. The load on the server was such that the > > daily reporting was taking near taking 23 hours to complete. And > > the requests for new reports was getting the IT department very > > worried. > > > > Worst of all know one there really know the ins and outs of > > Ingres to do anything about it. > > > > Well, I take part of that back. They recently upgrade to a newer > > alpha to reduce the time daily reporting was taking. :-) > > OpenVMS never stops, does it? :) > > We've got some big OLTP systems running RDB. I dread having to move > to Oracle, even though it will be running on Linux. I don't know but maybe some-one else on the list will. :-) Regards, Richard Broersma Jr.
