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As usual the DB is what gets blamed. But so far as I can see the db is not actually "the problem". Something in the layers beneath the db is messed up. There are various candidates but IO performance stands out as being especially putrid. I don't find that very surprising - it's basically yet another supposedly magical storage layer that nobody in their right mind would put a performance critical database on. IMHO. "On the ground" all of these fancy infrastructure things suffer from a common problem. They get implemented universally within organizations but in a generic manner by people without adequate understanding of their strengths and weaknesses and the particular needs of the applications running on them. A mission critical ERP application is not the same as a conference room scheduling app. Or a web server. Etc. The end result is all too predictable.
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