Though this be madness, yet there be method in it.
—Shakespeare
You appeal to a small, select group of very confused people.
—Message in a fortune cookie
In the early 1980s, a Honeywell customer was having problems with DBMS batch jobs. A Honeywell field-service engineer was visiting that company for a number of management meetings. During her lunch break, she wandered into the DBA’s area where she found the customer’s staff stymied by the processing problem. Their most important application, the one that processed customer orders each night, was taking longer ...
