Re: Is Oracle deliberately difficult?

From: Jason Kratz <jkratz_at_rctanalytics.debug.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:05:33 -0500
Message-ID: <8ogn0h$dua$1@flood.xnet.com>

"Jay M. Scheiner" <jxs_at_wolpoff_nospm_law.com> wrote in message news:39abbdce.233371016_at_news.erols.com...
> Based on my 3 years experience with a mainframe database (Unisys
> DMSII) and my 1 year self-taught and part time experience with Oracle,
> I can give a few specific examples of things about Oracle that I am
> finding difficult. Perhaps they are second nature to more
> experienced, or more formally trained, Oracle people, but here they
> are:

> 2) Space management
> Oracle makes you do too much work with worrying about extents, block
> sizes, etc. You can justify some of it by saying you can tweak your
> performance, but not for what the effort seems to be.
>

Here here! This is one the things I hate the most about Oracle. IMHO there are simply too many options for space mgmt.

Jason Received on Tue Aug 29 2000 - 11:05:33 CDT