Re: TRanfers DB ORACLE to SQL 2000

On Apr 21, 10:05 pm, DA Morgan <damor..._at_psoug.org> wrote:

>
> Rather harsh David. One one of the first rules of working with
> Microsoft products is not reading. Seems to me he is off to a
> great start.
>

Hello Daniel. Until very recently I would have defended SQL Server without knowing anything about Oracle. I have been learning about Oracle and feel it is much rich although I do not have yet business experience with either of them to justify my statement.

When you program in c# or SQL Server or VB6 which I have done for after school, I have not read the manuals and relied on a couple of books and Google. One thing about Google is that a reference to the Microsoft documentation for what you search on usually is in the first 1 or 2 hits of Google. When searching in Oracle, the relevant results aren't at the top. Also the search function on Oracles website is really bad.

When searching for something in Oracle like creating a table, I usually type in "create table site:www.oracle.com" rather than using Oracles search functionality on their website.

I think the reason for not reading the Oracle documents are that

1. There are so many, which is good, but getting a good search tool to get the information you need quickly from them is hard.
2. The Oracle website search functionality orders things in an odd order which doesn't seem to be most relevant hit first.
3. Nowadays people just expect to Google something and have the result popup or someone help them not think by posting to a usenet group.
4. Nowadays in general people can't be bothered reading the manuals, for anything (which includes my TV remote control) so posting to a usenet group is easy.

I have tried to read the manuals for Oracle and then only posted to this usenet group when asking for help. Thank you for your help everyone.

John Received on Sun Apr 22 2007 - 08:08:10 CDT