Re: raid level

Mladen Gogala wrote:

> Sometimes, given the price of HW, hardware upgrade is cheaper then a
> good DBA/performance analyst and it does make the most of sense from
> the commercial point of view. If better performance can be achieved by
> spending additional $10,000 for a box, why bother with consultants?
> Application themselves have limited age and have to be rewritten almost
> from scratch every few years. If the application is technologically out
> of date, written by using Forte, Jam or some other "application generator",
> then letting it run on a stronger box might carry the company until the
> complete rewrite in Java or .NOT can be financially justified to the
> senior management. I'm sorry to say, but it's all economy. Buck is
> driving everything.

I couldn't disagree more.

This is a point-of-view that was common, and perhaps valid, 10-15 years ago. But I don't think it has any merit today.

If the DBA is competent and knows how to tune a database. Then the DBA knows how to identify the bottleneck and address it: In a week or less. No DBA I know is getting paid $10K/week. And if you know one I want their job. The same goes for System Admin and Storage Admin skills.

Throwing hardware at a problem, at least to me, is the sign of an unskilled technician.

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