Re: Last time password was changed

"Paul Brewer" <paul_at_paul.brewers.org.uk> wrote in message news:3de7ba3e$1_2_at_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
>
>
>

With respect to Oracle Apps I will only mention: *NO* RI in the database.
No further comments necessary. Peoplesoft, Broadvision, etc, etc, they *ALL* do the same.

Regards

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Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA

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