RE: Oracle From a Sybase DBA perspective

I've used Sybase (along with Ingres and Informix) in a DBA role in the past and the one thing about Oracle I can say is;

At least Oracle doesn't have an entire chapter in the manuals on corruption and how to detect, prevent and fix it. (see dbcc). To me, that is an admission of failure.

Our shop had to run dbccs every day to detect possible corruption of pages in the database, then run them again to be sure they were really there (this is in the manual), then run other dbccs to fix them. And who's bright idea was it to store the logfile as a table in the database?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jared.Still_at_radisys.com [mailto:Jared.Still_at_radisys.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 1:43 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Oracle From a Sybase DBA perspective
>
>
> Dear list,
>
> Feel like having a good rant? Need to take some frustrations
> out on lies, ignorance and misinformation?
>
> I received a document from a friend that live in both the Sybase
> and Oracle worlds. He was interested in my comments on it
> as he recognized it as a rant against Oracle that was full of
> misinformation.
>
> Oracle has it's problems, but if you want to rant about it's
> inadequacies, you should at least be accurate.
>
> Some of the things in here I can't address, such as the
> IEEE number formats.
>
> Others are just plain stupid.
>
> The writer claims to have spent 3 years with Oracle, but he's
> either lying or extraordinarily incompetent, I dunno which.
>
> Here's my proposal: I'm turning this document loose to the list.
> I was going to comment on it myself, but it's fairly lengthy, and I
> just don't have time to do it myself.
>
> Besides, I know that some of you relish such opportunities. :)
>
> It's in MS Word format. If you want to make comments about
> any section of the document, include your comments in blue
> font below that section.
>
> I will compile the comments, and send the annotated document
> back to my friend. He can distribute it to his Sybase DBA friends
> if he likes.
>
> I was kidding about the ranting. Please keep it objective and
> professional.
>
> Please include your name at the top of the document. Tell me if
> you want your name and email address included in the finished
> document.
>
> The document can be found at:
>
> http://www.cybcon.com/~jkstill/Oracle_from_a_Sybase_DBA.doc
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jared
>
>
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