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Re:Why You Should Hire an Old Programmer by Clubber on Monday July 03, 2017 @11:05AM (#14688749)
No, we had middleware back then. It was ugly text over sockets, or worse, DCOM, but it worked. That was more ISAPI than classic ASP. If nothing else, we could create a queue table in a database and have a Windows Service pick it up.
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Re:Why You Should Hire an Old Programmer by vpeters25 on Monday July 03, 2017 @03:57PM (#14690945)
Ah DCOM, fun times.

Back in SQL 6.5 days (and all the MS SQL versions up to, i believe, 2005), "precompiling" queries in stored procedures was recommended for performance reasons. It was even asked on hiring interviews, at least to me.

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