Re: Oracle sucks!

henryl_at_bengaldevelopment.com (Henry Lafleur) wrote in message news:<30f1a81b.0304241503.1e0a9294_at_posting.google.com>...
> Tim Ashman <tim_mapson_at_ashmans.net> wrote in message news:<vN0pa.294379$OV.337426_at_rwcrnsc54>...
> > Bob Loblaw wrote:
> >
> > > Why does Oracle suck so much?
> >
 ...
> >
> > But seriously why do you think it sucks?
>
> Man, Oracle has some serious problems with their GUI tools. If you go
> to install the Oracle client from the GUI and hit the back button, it
> will create multiple homes in the registry. The pseudo-wizard is
> making changes as you hit Next, Next, but won't undo the changes when
> you hit Back. The Microsoft OLEDB Provider for Oracle won't work with
> multiple homes, so that screws you if you use that. If you use the
> Oracle OLEDB provider, it will cause IIS to crash randomly.
>
> The global database name, instead of being stored in one location is
> stored in about 10 locations, so to change the domain name for a
> database you have to jump through hoops. Can you say normalization of
> data! Is this a database company or what?
>
> Microsoft? How about right click, New Database--You've got a new
> database that will tune itself. Oracle? An act of Congress. I had a
> DBA send me a script to create a new Oracle database instance. I tried
> to run it, and it not only did not create an instance, it screwed up
> the other instance. Then you have to tune every table yourself. Who
> has the time for this kind of stuff? Even with PostgreSQL, you just
> type CREATE DATABASE (or something like that) and you're there. Not
> that I like Microsoft or anything, but they seem to be more sane that
> Oracle.
>
> I could go on and on and on and on...
>
> So what if Oracle is fast. I don't need it. SQL Server is fast also.
> Our customers demand Oracle because their DBAs have them by the
> nads--so we are forced to use it, and without a DBA.
>
> Henry.

There is much written about Oracle vs other DB vendors... and it is readily availabe on the internet... so I will not get into the nitty gritty.

From your post it seems like that you are the perfect "Poster boy" for M$ products. Just give me a keyboard with one key, i.e. "Run Business" -:)

Regards
/Rauf Sarwar Received on Fri Apr 25 2003 - 17:54:21 CEST