Person 1: Those are some interesting optimizations. Why are you doing them?
Person 2: Well, I've never worked with a database table with a billion records before.
Yes, he said "billion". Yikes.
It's Not As Bad As It Sounds
chromatic on 2004-03-19T01:51:31
Most of them only have one good song apiece.
Re:It's Not As Bad As It Sounds
Ovid on 2004-03-19T01:59:29
I wish I had thought of that punchline :)
Back in the good old days ...
drhyde on 2004-03-19T09:19:46
... I managed a database (set up by someone else) with that order of magnitude of records. On DOS and Netware. It was Not Pleasant, althuogh I think that was more a function of my cluelessness at the time than anything else.
yikes
tinman on 2004-03-19T09:42:08
I will stop complaining about my trivially sized 100 million odd record databases forthwith.
A million records, yikes..
*shakes head* I have the same sense of awe about those 18 wheeler truck drivers.
