Re: Dreaming About Redesigning SQL

"Anthony W. Youngman" <thewolery(at)nospam(dot)demon(dot)co(dot)uk> wrote in message news:UGXSKIAGbtk$EwW3(at)thewolery(dot)demon(dot)co(dot)uk(dot)(dot)(dot)
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> As soon as a requirement for a database specifies extraction of the
> maximum power from the box,

I don't for a second believe that this is your only requirement,
or that this is even an actual requirement. If it really is an
actual requirement, then I assume you're writing all of your
code in hand-tuned assembly language, and that the document
you consult most regularly when writing code is the CPU's
instruction timing table.

Another commodity box costs $1000, which is about the
same as the cost to a company of a day's programmer time.

What *really* matters is getting software delivered in a timely
fashion, that is as correct as possible, and that will operate
reliably over time and not cause data corruption.

Marshall