Re: Assistance needed with creating tables in oracle.

On Sun, 12 May 2002 06:56:05 -0700, "KPK" <kpkeller_at_alltel.net> wrote:

> Bottom line (and apparently Mr. Bakker fails
>to understand this) is that we "developers" typically don't get the time to
>do things the correct way because upper management unfortunately and often
>times make the decisions.
>
>Although they (mostly) have no experience in Software Engineering or
>development processes, they look at "time" and "cost". That's it. How much
>time will it take to get "something" out to the customer and how much will
>it cost them before they go out and look for another vendor that can do it
>for less. When things bogg down and bugs begin to surface (usually do to
>the lack of adequate testing time), then it's our (developers) fault. I
>just don't need or want the extra headache from folks like Mr. Bakker.

Unfortunately Mr. Bakker belongs to the folks that have to clean out the mess and are
*always blamed by developers*
 for bad database performance, while it is perfectly clear developer's crappy code is causing the problem. Happens in 99.9 percent of all the sqlserver - oracle migration projects, as most sqlserver developers think Oracle is sqlserver sold by a different vendor.

Regards

Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

To reply remove -verwijderdit from my e-mail address Received on Sun May 12 2002 - 07:58:49 CDT