Re: Saving CoBOL

In article <6806q2F2qihc4U1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Pete Dashwood <dashwood@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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><docdwarf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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news:fven7l$eb5$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> I said 'Do you want to see someone look uncomfortable? Just for laughs,
in
>> the next meeting ask if they have sorted the input data into their
>> table-key sequence, de-duping it for later research... oh, and ask if
>> they've turned journalling off and whether they're using a single-row
or
>> bulk-load utility.'
>>
>> The response was a kind of blank-faced 'whuh?' but they did it... and
>> re****ted back that the database team liason (an Anderoid... errrr...
>> Accenturion) got all fluster-faced and took notes and said he'd look
into
>> that... and suddenly there weren't day-and-a-half windows needed for
daily
>> loads.
>>
>Good job, Doc.

It was not what I was getting paid to do, Mr Dashwood... but every so 
often I give some lagniappe.

Now if you thought that a manager looked into this situation and said 'You

know, maybe we can use this peculiar ability in other places'... you'd 
have thought wrong.

DD