Re: Bad performance because of wrong characterset?

Pure bvllsh1t.

Slap a sql trace on the process and find out what's actually going on. Stop the madness before some damager makes a stupid decision...

In the end, they might be right. But isn't it better to be certain?

on 11/17/03 3:49 AM, Carel-Jan Engel at cjpengel.dbalert_at_xs4all.nl wrote:

> Hi List,
>
> One of my customers gets HP Servicedesk 4.5 implemented. The database that
> has been created by on of the DBA's for the application is Oracle 8.1.7.4,
> on AIX 4.3.
>
> The database has characterset UTF8, which is the standard here.
>
> Now ServiceDesk has bad performance. HP claims that the characterset is
> wrong, and a new database has to be created with character set
> WE8ISO8859P15.
>
> I've never heard of bad performance due to differences in character sets,
> probably because of my lack of experience. Anyone familiar with this
> issue?
>
> TIA, Carel-Jan
>

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