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>>Not In My Experience.
>I will respectfully submit that you have never worked on a truly well-tuned
>Oracle implementation.
>
>In my experience, 90% of Oracle application implementations are seriously
>broken.
I'll buy that. Since I haven't been involved in the implementation of
any of them (I'm just a simple sysadmin), I won't even take offense.
>Truly expert Oracle developers are far and few
>between indeed.
But this is why I have a general problem with Oracle. When we have issues,
it takes a LONG time to find anyone (at Oracle even) who can answer the
question. The last time we had an Oracle consultant drop by to evaluate
our systems, she spent way too much time wondering why we hadn't done
this and that with the OS and not enough time looking at Oracle. We couldn't
even get decent tuning information out of her.
Compare this to getting answers usually the same day from the actual
developers! We should be expecting more from the companies that charge
us the big bucks. How come Oracle doesn't provide Oracle Certified
Database Engineer classes?
Yes, Oracle does a lot that MySQL doesn't. (I can't run MySQL as a
parallel database on Sun's HA framework, for instance.) But I would
rather work with shortcomings in software and excellent support than
the other way 'round.
--
derick
