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"A programmer with 10 years of experience can be 10x (or more) more productive than a graduate". I couldn't agree more and indeed sometimes it can be up to 100 times. Not necessarily because of their productivity but because of the absolute mess that they don't get you into.

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As a member of the class of 2009, I heartily agree. I like to think I'm pretty good, but I've been waiting for this ASP page I just wrote to finish with its DB interactions and load for five minutes. Anyone else would have avoided the need for the optimizations I'm about to go figure out.

Optimize your query.

It's unlikely to experience that bad of performance from your display logic. (unless you are trying to display millions of rows at once)

Yeah, it's certainly somewhere in the data access portion of the code.

absolutely.

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