Looking for an old post
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Hello all, Some time in the last few months, I remember reading something of a rant about how difficult it was to add features to Oracle - something about having tests run for hours to days, hundreds of feature flags, causing completely random things to break, having to add hundreds of your own tests, and having to wait weeks for management approval after additional testing. However, I can't seem to find it anymore. The only other clue I have is that I got to it through a link from the "Daily News" email. I tried searching on the site, but I can't seem to find it. Can anyone point me to where this was? Thanks!
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Hello all, Some time in the last few months, I remember reading something of a rant about how difficult it was to add features to Oracle - something about having tests run for hours to days, hundreds of feature flags, causing completely random things to break, having to add hundreds of your own tests, and having to wait weeks for management approval after additional testing. However, I can't seem to find it anymore. The only other clue I have is that I got to it through a link from the "Daily News" email. I tried searching on the site, but I can't seem to find it. Can anyone point me to where this was? Thanks!
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You're looking for an Oracle rant, and need to go back months? You're just on the wrong site. :-)
I am referring specifically to a rant by a former Oracle employee about developing the database engine itself, not to a rant about using it.
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Hello all, Some time in the last few months, I remember reading something of a rant about how difficult it was to add features to Oracle - something about having tests run for hours to days, hundreds of feature flags, causing completely random things to break, having to add hundreds of your own tests, and having to wait weeks for management approval after additional testing. However, I can't seem to find it anymore. The only other clue I have is that I got to it through a link from the "Daily News" email. I tried searching on the site, but I can't seem to find it. Can anyone point me to where this was? Thanks!
It doesn't sound familiar to me; I'm guessing it came somewhere other than the insider news.
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