Re: chatGPT for troubleshooting Oracle errors

Wow.

Rimini Street can't supply patches without breaking the law, so you're stuck on the version you have. But I guess you understand that. Your boss...?

I'd keep an eye on the jobs lists.

Good luck.

Regards, John

On Fri, 20 Jan 2023, 17:19 Sandra Becker, <sbecker6925_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> To save money, the company canceled our support contract with Oracle a
> couple of years ago. This means a lot of searching for answers and relying
> on the kindness of people on oracle-l. They finally contracted with Rimini
> Street last year, but so far we've been able to find answers before they
> came back to us with solutions.
>
> Suffice to say my boss is NOT a DBA. He frequently tries to tell us how
> to do things when he has no clue what he's talking about. I did try using
> chatGPT for a couple of the errors we are encountering building our
> standbys, but they were not very helpful. I still have access to MOS, just
> can't open tickets, and that has been more helpful, as well as posting on
> oracle-l.
>
> Sandy
>
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 12:59 AM John Thomas <jt2354_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Neil. I hear what you are saying, but it comes back with some
>> surprisingly well-written and accurate answers to specific questions about
>> Oracle. I wonder if it's read the manuals... and what the legal
>> implications of that are.
>>
>> Recommend you sign up for an account and give it a try :-)
>>
>> (Not that you'd rely on it for serious answers to production questions, I
>> still suspect the OP's boss is a bit too much of a sci-fi fan, but for
>> curiosity. I think it's doing something other than returning the "average"
>> answer.)
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> John Thomas
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 at 23:24, Neil Chandler <neil_chandler_at_hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> AI’s tend to work on average opinion. If you are happy with your first
>>> Google hit giving you the correct answer, then ChatGPT will also be fine.
>>> They work on a similar method of answers to google, where popularity and
>>> “average” is more important than accuracy.
>>>
>>> The more accurate your input, the better your outcomes will be with an
>>> AI - it does have some value - but from my attempts to get great answers
>>> from ChatGPT I was largely disappointed at how anodyne the answers were. We
>>> aren’t there yet.
>>>
>>> Neil.
>>> sent from my phone
>>>
>>> > On 19 Jan 2023, at 21:26, Sandra Becker <sbecker6925_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > 
>>> > My boss is pushing my DBA team to use chatGPT for troubleshooting
>>> Oracle errors instead of using google or MOS. Has anyone had experience
>>> using it for this purpose? What has your experience been? Would you
>>> recommend it as another tool in the toolbox or as a replacement?
>>> >
>>> > Would appreciate any feedback.
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Sandy B.
>>> >
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>
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> Sandy B.
>
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