Re: Oracle versus MS Sql Server

"Michael G. Schneider" <mgs_at_mgs-software.de> wrote in message news:9r9ko8$8hj$07$1_at_news.t-online.com...
> "Ron Reidy" <rereidy_at_indra.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:3BD837B3.7EC4D68_at_indra.com...
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> > Being a DBA is not
> > easy. Part of the job is to understand the RDBMS internals,
> > configuration, etc. People who do not take the time nor make an effort
> > to learn these things are doomed to the issues they face.
>
> Sorry, I wanted to keep quiet. However, I did not succeed.
>
> I once again have to point on somthing, which many contributors in this
> thread don't understand or maybe don't want to accept.
>

You seem to be very stubborn about your own truth. As you are an independent software developer, which has to sell software to companies employing DBAs, you will soon learn some hard lessons.

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> I already gave myself as an example. I am an independant software
developer.
> It wouldn't be reasonable to have a DBA managing the databases, which I
> create for development purposes. And it also wouldn't be reasonable, if I
> took some weeks of education for becoming a DBA myself.
>

That is definitely stupid. Very often my customers have bought software developed by firms who don't know a damn thing about Oracle database administration. This invariably results in programs following principles and practices completely unacceptable to any Oracle DBA who is worth a grain of salt. No primary keys, no constraints, every user has DBA privilege, end user objects in the system tablespace, frequent ora-1555 errors because the developer thinks he need to commit every individual record, people installing the database on a PDC, I could write a book about it.

But then, as you seem invariably to ignore and/or contradict comments made with respect to your posts, I think you are up to a few surprises

You *can't* run an Oracle database without a DBA, I earn a living from such situations, but I usually come in when things have completely run out of hand, so I really don't like that.

Regards,

Sybrand Bakker,

Senior Oracle DBA

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Received on Thu Oct 25 2001 - 13:50:22 CDT