Comment by X86BSD

You are so right. Without giving to much detail the wife is working on a project with a branch of government. They use Oracle. Her teams biggest problems are and have been the DB falling over during updates or joins. Were talking billions of rows of government data. Running out of table space, loads taking literally days to complete. Thing's that I have never seen happen. I'm not sure if it's the DB architecture itself or clueless people doing really dumb things. I only get to see these failures second hand.