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All the Costs of Downtime

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I studied economics in university, which isn't that close to database work, though I did have to work through linear regression problems by hand. I always enjoyed mathematics, so this wasn't a hardship. Until I purchased a PC that was capable of letting me do graphs and calculations in PASCAL and BASIC. Then I realized that my enjoyment wasn't that efficient or useful, and a computer could help me get things done way more efficiently.

Many of us work on systems that process tremendous amounts of data, something our organizations couldn't complete without computer hardware, efficiently or not. We just wouldn't be able to get the work done by hand. That's the main reason why downtime is such a problem in the modern world; we can't fall back to manual systems in many cases.

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I studied economics in university, which isn't that close to database work, though I did have to work through linear regression problems by hand. I always enjoyed mathematics, so this wasn't a hardship. Until I purchased a PC that was capable of letting me do graphs and calculations in PASCAL and BASIC. Then I realized that my enjoyment wasn't that efficient or useful, and a computer could help me get things done way more efficiently.

Many of us work on systems that process tremendous amounts of data, something our organizations couldn't complete without computer hardware, efficiently or not. We just wouldn't be able to get the work done by hand. That's the main reason why downtime is such a problem in the modern world; we can't fall back to manual systems in many cases.

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