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I’ve only ever worked on a handful of systems where performance was so critical we bothered with load tests. Almost every single enterprise database has a hand

I’ve only ever worked on a handful of systems where performance was so critical we bothered with load tests. Almost every single enterprise database has a handful of users or so little data they can handle it by throwing money (hardware) at the problem. Honestly, having to care about performance is a lovely problem to have - it makes for much more disciplined database engineering compared to performance doesn’t matter so just throw in a load of triggers.

ed_elliott_asc 7y ago
This is so true, https://db-engines.com/en/ranking https://db-engines.com/en/ranking has microsoft sql server in third but I think if this ranking was just customer facing databases rather than apps like the weekly company canteen meal planner it would be must lower. Actual, revenue losing, ms sql server databases are a lot lower and you have to have engineering discipline because it 100% doesn't "just go faster" (when sql 2016 came out, microsoft's tagline was "it just goes faster", narrator: "it mostly didn't")