I see a few people have been caught by this. Databases are a problem space which can absorb all available effort. So if you spend five hours making thing U as

I see a few people have been caught by this. Databases are a problem space which can absorb all available effort. So if you spend five hours making thing U as fast as it could be that's five fewer hours you can dedicate to thing V or thing W, not to mention X, Y, Z and so on.