Re: ORACLE: I'm MAD AS HELL and I'm not going to take it anymore!

It seems that as good as the product 'Oracle' is, that they can't build the same into their installation scripts. This was my view untill about a day ago.

It seems that Orcle can't even manage their own database. :) I have had nothing but problems with them forgetting who we are, even when we have paid $$$'s for support! In addition, it seems that thier support for the Sequent is forever having problems. "HIRE SOME TCP/IP GUYS ORACLE!!"

SQL*NET is forever bombing on the Sequent. One of those "Yeah, we know it doesn't work but we decided not to tell anyone." issues.

Add to this the giant attitude of "We're Oracle. If you don't like the way we handle things we can always take your license back." We actually had a sales rep tell us this once. Needless to say we found another sales rep (out of our state) that could handle the issues for us. But I hear horror stories of others that deal with ORACLE and how they are casually pushed aside.

My List of things for them to fix:

o Fix SQL*NET/orasrv on the Sequent. Keep it from hanging and making unwanted deamons

o Fix it's memory allocations!!! Each orasrv process is consuming 35Megs of dataspace. You can do better memory handling than that!! The answer is not to keep everything in memory but rather good logic programming and smart handling of the database!! *SHEESH* (times that about 50+ users!!! *sigh*)

It's technical support and development of a product like this that makes programming in Basic not such a bad idea afterall. :) :)

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Harry Skelton
United Systems Security Enterprise - USS Enterprise