Re: Is it just me, or has Oracle completely lost the plot?

They need the features when doing comparisons with other products . My problem is that the amount of bugs seems to be growing the last few years , which I attribute to some change in the QA / Testing process . It is quite irritating to trip onto some bug, then find out the bug report has been languishing for 2-3 years without progress .

My other complaint is that the documentation effort seems to have slacked off .

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> On Oct 23, 2022, at 6:16 PM, Chris Taylor <christopherdtaylor1994_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> This is going to sound like old man / old technologist complaints, and it may be.
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> But I am a technologist and the more I work with new versions of Oracle , the less and less satisfied I am with the new versions.
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> Stuffing JSON, XML, CDC and whatever else into the database server *used to make sense* when the db server was the power house - when CPU, storage, network were expensive and your db server had all the horse power.
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> Today is not that day. Today you can spin up a middle tier cluster with tons of CPU power, god awful network bandwidth and amazing storage.
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> Since 12.1 I have spent more time with support and yelling at them to listen and to get an engineer on the call then all the years before (going back to 7.1).
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> These ORA-01555 errors that come up with everything _besides_ actual rollback / undo space issues are incredibly incredibly annoying.
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> It's no wonder people are leaving Oracle in DROVES - you have the licensing, you have the bugs and you have the support issues.
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> Add to that Oracle stuffs their database product with so much stuff that no one uses, its no wonder people are leaving.
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> I'm so fed up and looking forward to getting off Oracle and re-routing my career into something new (postgres, snowflake, dynamo db , anything besides Oracle and their issues).
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> End of rant. Just wondering if I'm alone in this or not?
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> Chris
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