At my first job I had to kick off these SQL stored procs to process all the orders that came in overnight. It would take a good hour to hour and half to run. So I browsed the web, drank a bunch of caffeine, and generally slacked off the first hour of my day. Then we upgraded off of our 1990s server to SQL 2005 on brand new hardware and it took less than 5 minutes to run.
At my first job I had to kick off these SQL stored procs to process all the orders that came in overnight. It would take a good hour to hour and half to run. So I browsed the web, drank a bunch of caffeine, and generally slacked off the first hour of my day. Then we upgraded off of our 1990s server to SQL 2005 on brand new hardware and it took less than 5 minutes to run.