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Unix migration: Effects of the migration

'The performance hasn't..well it's funny because I don't know where we stand on this because Alan reckoned that the database was flying and it was all going to be ??? on this huge big machine and things would go a lot faster, but in practice they haven't gone a lot faster. ... It hasn't gone any slower. ... And I think in Essex it has got a bit faster in certain areas. Certain things that were very slow.

But, anyway, that's something we're looking at closely now, because..I don't know if you picked this up from Colin..Jane [the new project manager] reckons that there are quick hits we can do on the database to speed it up, there are various indexes and things that you can put on that aren't on, which should be there, but she's questioning some of the way that the keys have been set up or the lack of the keys. Now I am baffled about this, because Matt was sent on all kinds of courses, he was good at this. Sybase came in, and then Sybase even came back and said "Yes, that looks OK". ... This has horrified me that she is now saying that there are still some flaws in it, but what she has not done is say to me.. is to quantify everything. ... But we've got to do that, because it's too slow in some areas. ... '

X081 page 004.03a (tape 03.1.06a) Gordan Notes/Tape 17/02/95

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