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Why we maintain databases

November 20, 2007 by Kevin3NF Leave a Comment

Why we maintain databases…

I was blissfully unaware of this issue until I came in this morning and saw the debris…

The players: Freakshow and Tiny (my co-workers), the Customer, and the application Vendor.

Customer: Everything is slow and my cluster keeps failing over! Must be SQL Server!
Freakshow: We didn’t change anything on your servers sir…
Customer: You must have!
Freakshow: Could be bad indexes or stats…
Customer’s Vendor: Oracle doesn’t have this issue
Freakshow: Grrrr….
Tiny: Double Grrrrrr…..
Freakshow: You have 49 million rows, and are table scanning/locking…
Customer: We have 3 years of data
Vendor: You should have 90 days, and you are 3 years behind on versions of the application…
Freakshow: Let me update the stats….
Customer: Hey…its working!!!
Vendor: You know that ‘purge’ utility we provide?….it comes with fries 🙂
Freakshow: I’m going back to bed
Tiny: I’m going home (6 hours past end of the shift…)

Moral: Purge your data, keep your versions up, and maintain your indexes folks…

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