Re: Rollback/Undo in 9i

zhu chao wrote:

> Anything new is so buggy, in oracle.

Nonsense. Utter and complete nonsense. It took me three weeks of hard word to find the first problem with 10gR1 ... and that was with an early Beta.

> Being a senior DBA, you should be aware of this.

Actually someone being a senior DBA should be aware of reality rather than mythology. There are not facts supporting your prejudice.

> Think about ASSM, IOT, Partition, and especially SMU.
> Which feature comes mature in the first 1-2 release?

Think about dafodils, fuel-injection ports, and scuba diving. What does any of this have to do with anything else?

> Many DBAs tried all the new fancy stuff, and got their production
> database crashed one time after another, only to know that they hit
> some bug, and need some special workaround, patch, or even rollback.

Any DBA that tried the new stuff appropriately, on a test box, didn't have a production problem. The problem here isn't really Oracle is it?

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Daniel A. Morgan
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