Re: Can I remove a table from the recycle bin?

On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 06:19:22 -0700, EscVector wrote:

> That said, the environments are Alpha/Prototype environments, so giving
> access and helping out is just good PR especially when some of the
> worlds top java devs don't believe they need DBAs. They're database
> independent....

I've recently encountered an idiot giving a horrible advice how to make Oracle behave like SQL Server. I've fought people trying to create "database independent" applications all my life. Different databases have different locking strategies, different way of dealing with connections and different optimizers, not to mention different security mechanisms. In my life, I've dealt with Oracle, PgSQL, CICS/DL1 and Informix, not much but enough to know that all the databases are different, they're all individuals, as stated in the "Life of Brian". When the vendor tells me that his application is portable, I usually ask for the way that this portability is achieved. If the answer is "Hibernate and WebLogic", I advise the CIO against the application and explain him the risks. The only type of database independence I have nothing against is so called ifdef portability, named after the #ifdef pre-processor in CPP. I have never seen a database independent application beat database specific application on a performance benchmark.

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