I don't know about all of you, but I'm fed up with being a DBA and
working in the IT industry. I've been an Oracle DBA for several years
now and pride myself on knowing Oracle like the back of my hand.
Here are my gripes ...
- third party apps that run on Oracle and designed like junk.
- third party apps that insist on "GRANT DBA TO ..."
- schemas with FKs that aren't indexed (man do I hate that!)
- poorly written queries (EXISTS and IN are like cryptonite!)
- the COST based optimizer which outsmarts itself more often than not
so that I have to to /*+ ORDERED INDEX(a b) USE_NL (w x y z) */ to
achieve the same thing as /*+ RULE */
- schemas that still use CHAR(x)
- DBAs who use DBCA to create a DB and it adds in all that unwanted
JUNK!!
Cheers ...
Domenic
Received on Thu Sep 11 2003 - 19:12:36 CDT
