Re: Oracle 8 and memory on NT --reboot?

On Sun, 17 Jan 1999 16:00:37 -0600, charlesm1NOSPAM_at_rocketmail.com (Charles M) wrote:

>In article <369ab225.80861723_at_news.cwix.com>, dperez_at_juno_nospam.com
>says...
>> OK, things are shutting down clean and starting UP clean..........
>>
>> BUT HOW DO I GET THIS POS TO NOT NEED TO BE SHUT DOWN ALL THE TIME?
>> Oracle's had how long to figure out how to build development tools without
>> constant memory leaks? Sheesh!
>>
>
>But is it Oracle or NT that's the problem here? Peruse the NT vs UNIX
>posts and you'll notice that you don't see this problem with Oracle on
>UNIX, but you do on NT. It may be that Oracle is as well written as it
>can be on NT and that it's the OS that is the culprit.

Um... Not to get into a pissing contest here, but this sounds like some of the conversations I've had with Oracle support over the years...... THEY insist that every problem is Microsoft's, and we always insisted that its ORACLE'S product, period, that is experiencing the product and should thus be created with sufficient quality so as not to crash and burn even IF the operating system isn't perfect! I believed, my coworkers believed, the DBAs believed, and we ALL STILL BELIEVE that blaming everything on the operating system is a convenient way of deflecting blame for shoddy engineering and utterly piss-poor software quality control.

So, while it is "nice" that Oracle dumped their product on every damn operating system in existence, it would be even BETTER if they'd optimize the damn thing for those operating systems so it wouldn't require CONSTANT nursing and babysitting. Received on Sun Jan 17 1999 - 19:41:29 CST