Asheras wrote on Oct 14^th, 2013 at 4:52pm:


Asheras, do you or have you worked for a computer company where you deal with databases?  Just curious.  I am pretty sure you do.

I have.

I can guarantee you that of the 50 employees that had access to all of our customer databases only two of us were competent.  Yes, that includes the other project managers.

I personally heard from many of the people I worked with that the stuff that I did could not be done.  I personally watched them create queries that created sequential sorts on views that absolutely, positively drove the database to its knees.

I then told them to get out of the way, and that they can never have access to anything that involved my projects.  If I so much as heard they were messing in my reports/views/tables I immediately went to them and gave them a good chewing out in public.

My stuff worked.  My stuff caused very few support calls.  My stuff was also Point of Sale software where I had to balance to the penny each and every day and the numbers that my projects spewed out had to be completely accurate.

If my customer was depositing $800,000 into the corporate coffers that day, it had better well damn sure be $800,000 real dollars.

My projects were the MAIN money maker for all of my clients.  If my software would have failed a customer, they lost money.  My software did not fail a customer.  Matter of fact, for ten years, my first version of the software ran at a customer site with ZERO updates.  They were of the mind that if worked, why fix it.

Sure Turbine has DBAs.  Just bad ones.

Flav gets it, but for some reason you don't.  Flav and I might get along if we worked together, you and I would butt heads every second of every day.

Plus you contradict yourself

In one statement you say "you don't think Turbine has competent DBAs?"

You seem to be one of those persons that if someone says something, it is wrong, but if you say the exact same thing it is right.

NOTdarth wrote on Oct 15^th, 2013 at 8:28am:


There we go, attack the poster.  Considering that I worked at a fortune 100 corporation and then was head hunted to work at another fortune 100 corporation that was one of the BIG dot com success stories and might actually know something about databases, I am confident in my abilities.

Please provide evidence that Turbine understands what a relational database is.

Evidence 1

We have FoS asking the users what prefixes and suffixes are missing.  Huh?  This has got to be a SHORT table with maybe 10,000 suffixes and prefixes in it.

Example

Select loot_prefix, loot_suffix from loot_table where Loot_item = 'Jewelry'

Obviously, FoS and no one at Turbine could write that.

NOTdarth wrote on Oct 15^th, 2013 at 8:28am:


Actually, Notajedi would be the pro, I'd be the incompetent armchair.  Just clarifying.

notajedi wrote on Oct 15^th, 2013 at 8:20am:


I do work in IT.  For about 20 years now.

From reading the above, I can tell the following:

1)  You are very confident in your abilities.   

2)  You think that being good at what you do makes it OK to treat your co-workers like shit. 

3)  You do not know what the architecture of Turbine's systems are.  In the slightest.

4)  You do not know if Turbine's database team is good or not. 

5)  Having no knowledge of Turbine's team, their architecture, platforms, or anything at all really, does not stop you from forming an opinion and treating it as fact.

6)  The opinion you form is that they could not be possibly have as good a DB guru as you.  It is not surprising that your uninformed opinion reinforces your own superiority.

7)  You talk out of your ass. 

The reality is that you have NO facts.  You know nothing about their systems. You just show SQL queries that one might find in the Northwind database and pass them off as proof of Turbine's ineptitude.

You are no daisy, Johnny Ringo.

Asheras wrote on Oct 15^th, 2013 at 1:27pm:


So notajedi = Feather of Sun?

Oh it's too fun

Asheras wrote on Oct 15^th, 2013 at 1:27pm:


After 20 years if you are not you should worry.

I have 20 years on Telecom, and trust me, on some topics I am confident.
I am confident enough to be The Reference and the guy that gets all the Oh! Shit! problems on said topic.

Asheras wrote on Oct 15^th, 2013 at 1:27pm:


That's something else altogether.

Asheras wrote on Oct 15^th, 2013 at 1:27pm:


From logs, wireshark traces, and a few other things we can make educated guesses... some might be wrong but there's only so many way to build the infrastructure needed for an online game.

Asheras wrote on Oct 15^th, 2013 at 1:27pm:


If they had a good team items being fucked up by F_o_S changes in U19 wouldn't have happened. ( among other things )

Asheras wrote on Oct 15^th, 2013 at 1:27pm:


If you don't know anything about their architecture by now, you have been utterly incurious. It's so easy to get some information about the architecture.

Asheras wrote on Oct 15^th, 2013 at 1:27pm:


Not a guru, but somebody that knows at least how to rummage in a database.
I learned everything I know about DB through looking at things, I'm far from being a guru, but I have a low opinion of Turbines DBA, they seem to be unable to do anything beyond reindexing the databases every few Mondays.

Asheras wrote on Oct 15^th, 2013 at 1:27pm:


you too, we all do.

Asheras wrote on Oct 15^th, 2013 at 1:27pm:


There's only so many ways to build a data model for a game like DDO... one has to be the right one.

Dr_tank2vich wrote on Oct 15^th, 2013 at 1:33pm:


No... But we can start talking X.25 and Telecom Network Supervision or X.25 and Intelligent Telecom Network. Then I can get all pedantic. Trust me, I'm good at X.25, I'm good enough to be The Goto Frog for the whole Froggy Land for my Company. I too can go the whole pedantic way if I want.

Yup, just got it.

Edit : and answered it... They are not going to like my ad-lib.

I typed out a well-intentioned, yet scathing criticism of the game as of late, and was very disappointed to find that the 650 characters I had used would not fit in the box they gave for comments.

So I said, "Fuck it," and closed the window it was in.

Apparently they only want feedback in tweetable format.

Quak wrote on Oct 15^th, 2013 at 2:24pm:


I received a questionnaire today.  One hundred words was not enough for me to explain what the fuck they're doing wrong.

I told them that I was almost certain to buy stuff in the next 30 days. 
And then in the text box qualified that by saying I was currently bannded and might not as I didn't know if it was 3, 7, 14 or perma.

iliveyourdream13 wrote on Oct 15^th, 2013 at 3:17pm:


-Yellow Lights were deemed too powerful and will be nerfed to 1 second in duration.
-Red Lights will now hold 20% longer.
-Green Lights will no longer proceed red lights at absolute intervals, and will randomly turn off leaving the user to decide what state suites them best.

OwlBearTrainer wrote on Oct 15^th, 2013 at 2:49pm:


This was a different survey than the support ones.

iliveyourdream13 wrote on Oct 15^th, 2013 at 3:03pm:

now that your are mentioning it... lemme log into the game and rush to the bank! And i only complained about you know what from you know who (what if they want us to discuss the questionaire and especially the tell your honest opinion here to then give us a ban for being a vault member?)

/paranoia off.