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Agreed. I once "optimised" an in-house software that took minutes to process a single report, down to seconds, just by adding an index to the database (Microsof
by selcuka 4y ago
Agreed. I once "optimised" an in-house software that took minutes to process a single report, down to seconds, just by adding an index to the database (Microsoft Access, mind you) table. Not all developers know what they are doing [1].
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26296339 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26296339
- z3t4 4y agoHad a coworker that just indexed everything, and it worked too.
- selcuka 4y agoTo be fair knowing what to index is hard [1], but one would at least expect a developer to know that indexes are a thing. [1] https://use-the-index-luke.com/3-minute-test https://use-the-index-luke.com/3-minute-test