HIVE MIND for software developers: I’d like your help – and your stories!
I’m working on an article with a tentative title of “Tales of the Crypt: Horror stories where database performance caused a real problem.” It’s meant to be schadenfreude nostalgia, about your late nights coping with a performance issue (with, hopefully, a happy ending of “…and this is what we did to fix it”).
So, what happened? Tell me about it.
@estherschindler Back in the IBM System-36 days (1980s), a colleague in county government IT installed a new voter registration tracking system. On the first day, a user said "I wonder how many voters we have named Elsie". Unfortunately, the first name column was NOT indexed, and the whole system waited while that search churned away.
@estherschindler not sure, but since it was a vendor system, they probably just said don't do that.