Re: Humor in Oracle Docs on OTN/Metalink... :-)
From: James Alexander Starritt <james_at_jamesstarritt.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 16:58:12 -0500
Message-ID: <9mp1em$3h2d2$1_at_ID-68406.news.dfncis.de>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 16:58:12 -0500
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My respect for you just dropped into the ground ... there is no need for the hostility
-- James Starritt "Sybrand Bakker" <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote in message news:toucnfoq3eg10_at_news.demon.nl...Received on Fri Aug 31 2001 - 23:58:12 CEST
>
> "Han Thomas" <han_at_royal.net> wrote in message
> news:1ettotog8q8h2oh8on90deaogt207n95g9_at_4ax.com...
> >
> > How about this one, one of the many many MANY documents on how to get
9iAS
> > working:
> >
> > " Note: Do not specify TYPICAL as your installation type; if you do
> > so, the installation will not work. "
> >
> > How true. :-) "Typically", Oracle installations don't work. (For the
first
> > week of sleepless nights or so anyway)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Han.
>
> If you would have advised to file the Oracle remark as a 'documentation
bug'
> this would have been funny.
> However, as your second remark usually applies to users just hacking away
to
> install the product, without ever reading any docs, it needs to be
> considered as hostile and insulting.
> If you think Oracle products are lacking in quality, call Support (or
didn't
> you buy a support contract) or stick to sqlserver, postgres, or mysql, or
> any other toys, which are recommended in these groups more than once.
>
> Regards,
>
> Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA
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