Re: Fed Up with being a DBA

From: Volker Hetzer <volker.hetzer_at_ieee.org>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 12:57:53 +0200
Message-ID: <bk45vj$lm9$1@news.fujitsu-siemens.com>

"Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:1063489383.106414_at_yasure...
> Don't get me started on all the people that pay huge amounts of money to
> Oracle and then use 1/10th the functionality they paid for because they
> don't even know what is in the package they purchased.
So, we use oracle because our CAD system requires it. Classical canned app. Said "requires oracle enterprise" on the outside, uses basically the mysql subset on the inside (except one package they could have coded around and a couple of triggers, ditto because they put demons in front of the db anyway).
Great. Why'd we still take it? Because it was the only product that satisfied two
conditions: the company could demonstrate a working system and it was the only
one using any relational db at all.

Lots of Greetings!
Volker Received on Mon Sep 15 2003 - 05:57:53 CDT