Here are some of my favorites;
1. Sequences
2. Cursors
3. PL/SQL
4. SQL+
5. Online documentation that refers to specific document numbers that do not exist.
6. Arrogance without end
7. =,=
8. tnsnames
Ack, it's like they wrote the book on how to be counter-productive.
Best posts made by Goff
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RE: Why the I-Hate-Oracle Club?
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RE: Windows Developers still don't get it!
<font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #efefef">Point 1:
Oracle's legendary stability is a crock of shit. The last company I was with was making an expensive and ill-advised change-over to Oracles application Suite. The further it got, the bigger the catastrophies were.
My favorite, "How Cool is Oracle" moment came when they were installing another one of the seemingly endless array of patches, fixes and other assorted crap. The production server shit the bed and wasn't right again for days.
Now keep in mind, this was not the result of some jackass with an Oracle for Dummies Book getting in over his head. This was a systems group that had been using Oracle for years. A technical manager that has been an Oracle dba (an actual official dba not just someone that claims it for the job title) for 7 years. A stellar Unix admin, this stuff was on Soloaris. They were even working with a 3rd party that does maintanance stuff like this as their line of business. The patches worked on the Pilot (test) system but made the production server go down in a blaze.
Point 2:
We use computers to make our lives easier. Why would you eshew tools that make you work better and faster. Query Analyzer and Ent Manager are great tools for getting shit done. MS gives them to you as part of their database server. Oracle charges you buckets of cash and does not furnish you with anything that resembles an effiecient tool for accomplishing work. They are cheating you.
Point 3:
Companies pay more money for Oracle developers because they are already used to getting bent over and fiscally violated for anything involing the word, "datbase."</font>