The Temporary Index
by in Representative Line on 2011-11-07By day, Matthew is a highly-paid consultant that travels around globe helping companies develop and optimize application databases. By night, he's a un-paid consultant for a friend that supports a massive, vendor-provided system that cost well in the six figures. And like many enterprisey systems, the quality is inversely proportional to the price.
"They sent me a patch to help speed up the ledger reconciliation report, but it doesn't seem to do anything," Matthew's friend told him, "in fact, it seems to make things go slower."