Dear oracle_hater,
Came across this forum and decided to join so that I could read more and understand the pain of so many who use Oracle. Just to let you know, my kind of toy resides in z/OS and it is DB2/udb as well as Unix DB2/udb. But for the most part, I work on large databases with real-time processing only because chicken shit products will never survive that sort of throughput in applications that have to do with this notion of processing.
As for Oracle? Well, I have heard stories from marketing reps telling DBAs to please simply reboot because it must be a problem with the client's work? when it truly was address leaking data from actual structured tables? YAUZA...imagine that sort of database in Criminal Justice HAHAHA!!!!
But in all, I do love to learn from different toys and that includes MS-SQL 2008; not a bad little toy; but it is Intel based, so they are F%#$@ed.
The only one thing I can say about DBAs in the Oracle world is that they find upgrading version of that piece of crap tentalizing (tormenting) so many do not even proceed to do it I have been told. So, I steer away from quasi-math....
Anyway, I wanted to thank you for giving me an awesome laugh as I read your posting hoping that you, yourself, can laugh with me to the atrocities created by products that are fighting so hard to stay afloat and compete with the big dogs and at the point of desperation drive around the city of San Francisco with a big blue dionasaur labeled "extinct".
Stay alive in the business; strength to your learning capabilities and awareness my friend. Those are my wishes.
Regards