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Sybrand Bakker wrote:
> "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.
>
>
Please clarify ... are you saying Oracle apps don't have referential integrity enforced by constraints and triggers? If so that is news to me.
If you are saying that PeopleSoft, etc. don't that wouldn't be news to anyone ... I hope.
Dan Morgan Received on Fri Nov 29 2002 - 16:40:43 CST