[geeks] my head just went explodey

[geeks at litfire.com]

Bill Bradford said:
>You should see the stuff I had to support at $WORK-1.  Telco SLA record
>keeping database.  Java/Tomcat/etc, using SNMP, talking to Oracle..
>
>"Oh?  its slow?  Throw a bigger machine and more RAM at it!"  (this was
>a dual-300Mhz Sun E250 with 2G of RAM and hardware RAID..)
>
>Bloated pig of a product that could have been better and much leaner
>implemented with PHP or Perl and MySQL.

You mean the MySQL which doesn't throw up an error on an insert of invalid
data?

If you're tracking SLA data, shouldn't you use a database that can be relied
upon to insert data properly?

-Anthony