Re: Database Design

From: Austin Durbin <adurbin_at_cox.net>
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 12:12:05 -0800
Message-ID: <Kr_Jb.358898$J77.116221@fed1read07>

"Sybrand Bakker" <gooiditweg_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote in message news:i38evv87ub1ee6773akiivkipg147pjggn_at_4ax.com...
> On 3 Jan 2004 11:46:33 -0800, miotromailcarlos_at_netscape.net (Carlos)
> wrote:
>
> >Are the people at Oracle stupid and/or ignorants? Daniel thinks so...
>
>
> Daniel obviously is a long-time Oracle user. I am too.
> Over the years I have seen the quality of Oracle non-server products
> deteroriating, and the same applies to the quality of Oracle provided
> consultants. Basically there is no difference anymore between Oracle
> consultants and consultants provided by large consulting firms.
> Apparently everyone must be fishing in the same pool of 25-year old
> graduates, who only learned to hit a button, instead of learning to
> develop. I routinely notice all people working in IT younger than
> about 30 usually don't know anything about development methods and
> logical thinking. We can see the horrid outcome everywhere in the
> field.
> Daniel is only too right.
>
>
> --
> Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

I could not have said it any better. Any thoughts as to how we arrived at such a point? In the coporate IT world it seemed to start with the advent of packaged systems and the introduction of tools such as VB. Received on Sun Jan 04 2004 - 14:12:05 CST