I'm Gold
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I'm a gold member now, ya hoo! :jig:
5 articles + 1 year = Gold, baby.
Some of my articles are Oracle-specific and I've not noticed many Oracle articles in CP. Are there not many here using Oracle? Barry Etter
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I'm a gold member now, ya hoo! :jig:
5 articles + 1 year = Gold, baby.
Some of my articles are Oracle-specific and I've not noticed many Oracle articles in CP. Are there not many here using Oracle? Barry Etter
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I'm a gold member now, ya hoo! :jig:
5 articles + 1 year = Gold, baby.
Some of my articles are Oracle-specific and I've not noticed many Oracle articles in CP. Are there not many here using Oracle? Barry Etter
Barry Etter wrote: I've not noticed many Oracle articles in CP. Are there not many here using Oracle? I think it is a case of. "If Oracle can't be bothered to do any decent documentation, why should we" :-D Luckily I haven't had to use Oracle in just over 12 months. I think there is an Oracle client install still running somewhere that hasn't finished yet :-D Michael CP Blog [^]
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Barry Etter wrote: I've not noticed many Oracle articles in CP. Are there not many here using Oracle? I think it is a case of. "If Oracle can't be bothered to do any decent documentation, why should we" :-D Luckily I haven't had to use Oracle in just over 12 months. I think there is an Oracle client install still running somewhere that hasn't finished yet :-D Michael CP Blog [^]
The few times I've mentioned Oracle I've been slapped arround and treated like I have the plague :) I think sometimes people forget you work with what you're given. Personally I've always liked Oracle as a database. People love to complain about the tools but you can find complaint with every toolset offered with each engine. For example, I've always foudn the SQL server toolset annoyingly simplistic and feature barren, but that's just me. Looking straight at the engine though, Oracle's got a pretty decent thing going. Mark Conger Sonork:100.28396
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The few times I've mentioned Oracle I've been slapped arround and treated like I have the plague :) I think sometimes people forget you work with what you're given. Personally I've always liked Oracle as a database. People love to complain about the tools but you can find complaint with every toolset offered with each engine. For example, I've always foudn the SQL server toolset annoyingly simplistic and feature barren, but that's just me. Looking straight at the engine though, Oracle's got a pretty decent thing going. Mark Conger Sonork:100.28396
The backend Oracle database is fine. Its just the client side where they struggle. A JAVA installer. WTF! If you've ever tried to silently deploy the Oracle client and ODBC drivers, you'll know what I'm taling about. I still think SQL Enterprise Manager and Query Analyzer are far better tools than what is supplied with Oracle. Michael CP Blog [^]
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The backend Oracle database is fine. Its just the client side where they struggle. A JAVA installer. WTF! If you've ever tried to silently deploy the Oracle client and ODBC drivers, you'll know what I'm taling about. I still think SQL Enterprise Manager and Query Analyzer are far better tools than what is supplied with Oracle. Michael CP Blog [^]
Oh, I've tried to do silent deployments before.. It pretty much is impossible in certain circumstances. The java installer was probably a mistake, but I understand why they went that route. Ever tried to maintain codebases for over 25 individual platforms? If I remmeber right their platform count was somewhere between 25-35 when they moved to the java platform for installs and toolset and everyone of those platforms had its own code tree for the installer and toolsets. If it worked right, we probably wouldn't care and yell about it as much but if they hadn't done it I'd hate to see how much higher the licensing costs would ahve been to maintain those developers and trees. Mark Conger Sonork:100.28396
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The few times I've mentioned Oracle I've been slapped arround and treated like I have the plague :) I think sometimes people forget you work with what you're given. Personally I've always liked Oracle as a database. People love to complain about the tools but you can find complaint with every toolset offered with each engine. For example, I've always foudn the SQL server toolset annoyingly simplistic and feature barren, but that's just me. Looking straight at the engine though, Oracle's got a pretty decent thing going. Mark Conger Sonork:100.28396
Plus its really expensive. So if you're working outside hours on some fun project its not something you can really afford to buy and use for yourself is it ? "One of the Georges," said Psmith, "I forget which, once said that a certain number of hours' sleep a day--I cannot recall for the moment how many--made a man something, which for the time being has slipped my memory."
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I'm a gold member now, ya hoo! :jig:
5 articles + 1 year = Gold, baby.
Some of my articles are Oracle-specific and I've not noticed many Oracle articles in CP. Are there not many here using Oracle? Barry Etter
Now we can melt you down :evil-cackle: The tigress is here :-D
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I'm a gold member now, ya hoo! :jig:
5 articles + 1 year = Gold, baby.
Some of my articles are Oracle-specific and I've not noticed many Oracle articles in CP. Are there not many here using Oracle? Barry Etter
<combustable-rant>Sensible people stay away from Oracle</combustable-rant> ;) -- Denn du bist, was du isst! Und ihr wisst, was es ist! Es ist mein Teil...?
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Plus its really expensive. So if you're working outside hours on some fun project its not something you can really afford to buy and use for yourself is it ? "One of the Georges," said Psmith, "I forget which, once said that a certain number of hours' sleep a day--I cannot recall for the moment how many--made a man something, which for the time being has slipped my memory."
A friend woks as an Oracle consultant for a smallish firm and according to him you can download everything from Oracle and use it at home to learn it or do fun projects on it. It's only when you start using it comercially as it's starting to cost money (and a lot of it).