The Simplicity of Speed In SQL Environments

My story is about a 13-year-old boy who benefited from a high-income father who was the CEO of his management consulting corporation, which specialized in loss prevention.

My dad would buy technology he knew he needed and hand it to me to figure it out and simplify it for him. This was how the newest portable computer, the Tandy 100, landed on my lap on a fateful day in December 1983. I turned it on, and it asked me if I wanted to play a game or build a database. I chose a database, and the rest was history.

The manual that came with the computer was larger than the laptop and defined every database detail and how it should be structured. For the next 28 years, I served as a consultant to some of the largest companies in the United States for one year at a time and became one of the top performance improvement consultants in the industry. If it took over five minutes, I wanted it under a minute. If it ran for hours without returning values, I wanted it under 15 minutes.

The value I bring to companies is immediate because I break down complex structures into simple parts and run them one after another. I eliminate memory holds, recursion, and unnecessary communication with the central server. Like a buffet, if I fill full trays of turkey at the beginning of the line, it follows that the dressings with it are easily picked up and placed on a plate without returning to the kitchen every single time, but all the trays must be filled for the result to be a fast-moving line.