Re: Fed Up with being a DBA

Domenic G. wrote:

> 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

You should try being an independent application developer and supporting multiple backends because some of your customers swear by Oracle/SqlServer/Sybase/YourChoice while others refuse to consider having it anywhere near their server. Received on Fri Sep 12 2003 - 10:46:52 CDT