Re: Is Oracle deliberately difficult?

On Tue, 5 Sep 2000 10:36:15 -0500, "Jason Kratz" <jkratz_at_rctanalytics.debug.com> wrote:

>(mine mostly). Good conversation is hard to find.

Amen! ;-)

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>This is also very true. I guess I think of PL/SQL being necessary just
>because its there. But then again a PL/SQL engine is available in their
>development tools as well (dont get me going on those btw ;)

Hmmmm, please get going on those!!! If enough people make enough noise maybe (just maybe!) ORACLE will start coding development tools that are actually easy to use and usable, instead of the memory monoliths and CPU suckers we have now!

(as I said, no affiliation. If there is one thing that SUX majorly in Oracle, it's the dev tools. Changing, but too slow.)

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>The performance definitely isnt there on NT ;) Thats what we use here and
>its a pig.

Yeah, I know. I shudder every time I get a client running a database server in NT: I know I'm in for a major exercise in patience... It's got its place, but that place is nowhere near the sizes of database people are attempting on it nowadays. And why, oh why is it that they always decide to run the BDC on the database server, the Names server, the print serve, etc,etc? Asking for trouble... But I digress.

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>Well...my comment was about Oracle being the end-all and the market not
>agreeing.
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Ah OK. Got it. While we are here, let me say that I hope ORACLE never completely dominates the RDBMS market. It will be the best recipe for crud to start turning out. Witness what happened to the PC market once everybody decided that W95 was the be-all-end-all of OS's. Only now with Linux is it recovering a bit, but for the last 5 years we have had mostly crap coming out of Ms...

Natural selection and environmental competition. They are the driving forces in everything, not just Nature....

Oh well, enough waxing lyrical. Catchyalata.

Cheers
Nuno Souto
nsouto_at_nsw.bigpond.net.au.nospam
http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/the_Den/index.html Received on Wed Sep 06 2000 - 04:58:15 CDT