Re: Last time password was changed

From: Paul Brewer <paul_at_paul.brewers.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 21:33:37 -0000
Message-ID: <3de7ba3e$1_2@mk-nntp-1.news.uk.worldonline.com>

"Daniel Roy" <danielroy10_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:1b061893.0211261755.2f1e19ef_at_posting.google.com...
> Thanx for the idea Daniel, I know everything about these password
> profiles, but I'm stuck with a bloody application (Siebel) which is
> about 3 Oracle versions back in terms of integration with the
> database. Therefore, the message from Oracle to the users to change
> their password never reaches the poor Siebel users. Are all the
> commercial packages that bad, or I'm just unlucky? For example, Siebel
> still accepts only rule-based costing, has never heard of MV's or
> partitions, knows about 1 type of index (the B-tree), Siebel "experts"
> stop us from disabling indexes with ONE distinct value (that is
> created at Siebel installation time) without consulting them, and
> thinks that a freelists value of 1 is OK for a heavily-accessed table!
>
> Daniel
>

Daniel,

Welcome to the real world.
Yes, the ones I've seen are all that bad, or worse. BTW, please do not start me off on Peoplesoft.
And (this will no doubt incite a veritable inferno), though I have no experience of them, I would not be surprised if the Oracle apps were not much better.

Regards,
Paul Received on Thu Nov 28 2002 - 15:33:37 CST