Quote Originally Posted by HellRaizer View Post
Throwing up more servers may help with the service layer.. However, no amount of servers will speed up database contention if it's down to coding..

I work on high volume (petabyte) databases in the finance area, and if you have bad code, you're F'd
Fully agree! Bad code eliminates power of servers. Specially when all queries come to one database without any help from replication, cluster, loadbalancing and other smart words in the area.

This is similar to increasing memory for solving memory lick - increasing memory will never help against memory lick.