Re: Index not used therefore rebuild the thing ...

"Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:1069171052.715445_at_yasure...
> sybrandb_at_yahoo.com wrote:
>
> Anyone at Oracle that doesn't know how unhappy I am with calls handled
> through India is taking kickbacks from IBM.
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Well, of course Oracle has to cut costs on support like everyone else. Up to a point. But then again, where is that point?

I don't know. I thought that people who worked for Oracle consulting used to be quite good. Yet of late I've found quite a few on the market (no particular ethnic background, so this has NOTHING to do with India!) that are nothing short of deranged...
Tirades like:

"Stuff performance design guidelines, who's that Kyte fella anyway?" "The database is small, why should I bother with designing the system following established and well known principles? Let me just clap together a few tables and be done with it!"
"If performance becomes bad, we'll address it during testing." "Designing global keys for replication is old hat, what we should be using is distributed(???) updates and standby(!) db."

and a bucketload of other ignorant pearls of wisdom, do absolutely nothing to give me a warm feeling about WTF is going on at Oracle. From people who claim to be "experienced" in databases of Tb class and with "years" of Oracle 9ir2 consulting work behind them. The usual, I guess...

The problem is: traditionally, the guys from Consulting were a cut above the phone "experts". With this sort of level coming out of consulting, I can't even start to imagine what's going on with the phone mob. Be it in Bangalore, Wop-wop, Timbuktu or Denver! Scary.

I mean, if Oracle has decided to add intelligence cutting as part of their cost-cutting exercise, they're headed for a BIG brick wall...

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Cheers
Nuno Souto
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