fleshyorgans

Been busy with the play and work. We switched to a 4 day, 9 hour work week. So that leaves me with about 2 hours each day for non-theater, non-work related stuff. Not counting the day off, I guess.

Anyway, check this out. I have been tasked with writing a SQL Server database module for Drupal 6. This is not fun. It’s slow, Drupal is written poorly for abstraction, and there are odd idiosyncracies one has to deal with. But that’s not what I want to tell you about.

This is the vargrind output between a semi-working mssql installation and a working mysql installation. That 400 number is the number of queries the MSSQL module needs to do to render the ‘My Account’ page. For comparison, MySQL only requires about 40.

(The reason it’s so high is because one must select the error code to check for an error, then select the code meaning from the database if there was an actual error. For every query.)