Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 16, 2002 07:59 PM
I agree too
I work as a consultant, and has for many years, both as developer and dba, using many platforms and RDBMS's. Oracle is so stupidly complex in some places.
Just look at the syntax for sqlnet.ora, or the mess in the oracle home dir. Just finding the log files is a challange for people not working with Oracle ALL THE TIME (like me). Don't even get me started on the installer.
After a while you learn all the stupid stuff and just assimilate them, but you relly shouldnt need to "learn" crap like that, to use an RDBMS efficently.
It is *so* easy to install, configure, use, admin and run PostgreSQL on Debian (my dist of choice).
Every NEW STARTED project (without legacy Oracle stuff) I have worked on could have used postgresql instead, but I am sure none of my firms customers has even heard of it, that is the problem for PostgreSQL, not enough exposure.
Any Oracle DBA could Admin PostgreSQL, if he wanted to (eg someone paying him), so the support issue people bring up often I dont really understand, it is an imagined problem mostly.
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Re:Why I prefer Open Source databases
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 16, 2002 07:59 PMI work as a consultant, and has for many years, both as developer and dba, using many platforms and RDBMS's. Oracle is so stupidly complex in some places.
Just look at the syntax for sqlnet.ora, or the mess in the oracle home dir. Just finding the log files is a challange for people not working with Oracle ALL THE TIME (like me). Don't even get me started on the installer.
After a while you learn all the stupid stuff and just assimilate them, but you relly shouldnt need to "learn" crap like that, to use an RDBMS efficently.
It is *so* easy to install, configure, use, admin and run PostgreSQL on Debian (my dist of choice).
Every NEW STARTED project (without legacy Oracle stuff) I have worked on could have used postgresql instead, but I am sure none of my firms customers has even heard of it, that is the problem for PostgreSQL, not enough exposure.
Any Oracle DBA could Admin PostgreSQL, if he wanted to (eg someone paying him), so the support issue people bring up often I dont really understand, it is an imagined problem mostly.
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