Re: the 10.2 dbca still leaves much to be desired

Agreed.

It took them long enough to get a GUI for configuring TNS - and even then it screws up occassionally.
If you've got specific requirements for building a DB, then script it.

"If I'm wrong, I'll buy everyone on Oracle-L a beer (you just have to get to Sydney to drink it..."

Hey, I'm just across the ditch in Auckland - you could mail it :-)

Dougie McGibbon

Grant Allen wrote:
> Paul Drake wrote:
>> One might think that the current version of the database creation
>> assistant - after being revised in 8.1.7, 9.0.1, 9.2, 10.1 - would be
>> a mature product in the 10.2 release of the database server software.
>>
>> Alright, no one that has actually used it would make that (wrongful)
>> assumption.
>>
>> What irked me today, was that for a Standard Edition install (do not
>> create starter database) that the dbca still includes creation
>> scripts for
>>
>> Label Security
>> Spatial
>>
>> Aren't there any loops closed there regarding feedback from customers?
>
> Whooooaaaa there Paul. A decent dbca? I can hear the words of
> certain devs already. "Fix DBCA? We don't need no stinkin' DBCA."
> (or words to that effect :-) :-) ). My pet gripe? Having to open two
> dialogs to get to a spinner control for something that should be
> editable *in place*!!!! Yes, I normally script things, so no dbca,
> but when you're trying to get a team of devs to do a little
> self-service by creating their own sandbox instances, dbca is annoying.
>
> We might be waiting a while for some action on this front. It's taken
> 10+ years for Oracle to get the message that maybe, just maybe,
> something like Raptor (or whatever they're calling it now) is more
> than just a sop to the point-n-click brigade from
> <cough>microsoft</cough> - it might actually be useful, and a damn
> sight better than the GUI version of sql*plus! They're probably
> feeling all giddy from that, and are having a quiet lay down
> somewhere. Given that experience, I'd say dbca will be perfect in,
> say, 2015.
>
> If I'm wrong, I'll buy everyone on Oracle-L a beer (you just have to
> get to Sydney to drink it - I'm sure Steve, Howard and Nuno will
> happily be your proxies :-) ).
>
> Ciao
> Fuzzy
> :-)
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