Re: Current Demands: Oracle or MS SQL?

Oracle support ain't what it used to be, but I had the misfortune of having to deal with MS support on several SQL Server problems. After jerking us around for an inordinate amount of time it usually came down to waiting for some new hot fix to be available.

Mark Weghorst wrote:

> ASTROSPMIS (astrospmis_at_aol.com) wrote:
> : WE have an Oracle support contract
> : but there support is terrible!
>
> For which platform? Real computers or peecee's?
>
> In my experience, Oracle support is terrible for all of the peecee rdbms
> ports. I once had an argument with Oracle support about relinking the
> bins on NT. The support rep kept insisting that all I needed to do was to
> change to $oracle_home/rdbms/lib and make -f ins_rdbms.mk TARGET. The
> idiot just couldn't get it into his head that this was NT and not UNIX.
>
> While the UNIX port support isn't ideal, it's much better than the peecee
> port support.
>
> -Mark Weghorst
Received on Tue Aug 18 1998 - 20:12:03 CDT