"Special Olympics IT Solution" Dept

A bit of supposedly non-urban-mythical e-mail dialogue that comes my way as part of the IT world...oh, by the way, for you non-techies: when a database is performing badly, sometimes it helps to do something called "running statistics."

One IT guy: "Are we going to have to bounce the database again? What can we do about this? Should we run spastics and then kick off the job now?"

Second IT guy's response: "That sounds pretty entertaining, but I don't see how it will help..."

I suppose it could have been worse -- he could have suggested running the job and then kicking off the spastics...