[PLUG] 1,500,000 records for MySQL?

Carla Schroder carla at bratgrrl.com
Sat Jun 8 02:33:18 UTC 2002


Pretty funny, Jeff. Good fodder for MOTD!
What's really funny is how serious people are when they say these things.

Carla

On Friday 07 June 2002 11:06 am, you wrote:
> That won't scale.
> That's been proven to be O(N^2) and we need a solution that's O(NlogN).
> There are, of course, various export limitations on that technology.
> The syntax is idiosyncratic.
> Trying to build a team behind that technology would be a staffing
> nightmare. That can't be generalized to a cross-platform build.
> Unfortunately, the license would contaminate our product.
> If we go with that idea, we're going to have Don Marti camped out in the
> front lobby with 300 angry software jihad supporters.
> Our support infrastructure simply can't handle the volume that change would
> involve.
> I had one of the interns try that approach for another project, and it
> scrambled the CEO's hard drive. So I think it's going to be a hard sell.
> Yes, well, that's just not the way things work in the real world.
> I like your idea. Why don't you write up a white paper and we'll review it
> at the next staff meeting?
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