Re: The Hot Shot Database Team
"Turned out the latency killed it, [...]"
A customer had a department who insisted on writing their own application in Visual Basic. The local network was blamed for the client taking 30 seconds to return one line of results.
I took a network trace and showed them the latency was 1ms. The Visual Basic application on the client was issuing 30,000 requests to the server objects for that one operation - rather than caching some objects locally.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
