Merchant Archive
Thread: Petition Make changes incrementally (please sign /flameoff)
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Ackehakka
Wed Aug 11, 2004 10:36 am
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I for one CANNOT comprehend why a process like the following is NOT being proposed by SOE:
1) Delete all the old/cancelled accounts and all of their posessions
2) Let the change bake, and see the effect
3) Delete all the vendors of players who do not have the skill to place a vendor of that type (or a vendor at all)
4) Let the change bake, and see the effect
5) Delete all the vendors which have been empty for X amount of time
6) Let the change bake, and see the effect
7) CONSIDER THEN what further changes need to be made in order to handle the request/response/dataStore volume on the database.
I am a computer engineer in real life. Making the wide-sweeping changes SOE is proposing all in one fell swoopwould beconsidered wholly irresponsible in my real life profession. Why are they not making these changes incrementally?
Normally when there is aperformance problem, some TUNING is involved, not rampant re-engineering of the system.
What SOE is proposing here would be referred to as "engineering on the fly", and as I said....is a wholly irresponsible practice.
To SOE, and our extremely competent merchant correspondent: Please make these database changes incrementally, so you can see the effects of one change before implementing another. Start where you KNOW you will get the most gauranteed benefit with the least impact, and move from there after seeing the effects.
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