Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 16, 2002 11:25 PM
Oracle installation: painless? I suppose it gets easier with supercomputer hardware and being a full-time Oracle administrator with lots of time on your hands. I've seen lots of issues with Oracle software of late: bloated installations, bizarre errors caused by slight mismatches in client and server versions, bizarre update procedures (to fix those patchlevel differences).
Also, Oracle's requirements seem to be skyrocketing as they seem to be deserting the low-end faster than a third-world regime who've just heard that George W. Bush is in town with 10000 of his best men. As people start to realise that they don't all need a datacentre dedicated to Oracle (probably the size of a small planet, in order to cram in all that hardware), expect to see more of a presence for open source database systems, and the commercial ones with a relatively small footprint (eg. Sybase).
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Re:Oracle supports ANSI99 outer join syntax
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 16, 2002 11:25 PMAlso, Oracle's requirements seem to be skyrocketing as they seem to be deserting the low-end faster than a third-world regime who've just heard that George W. Bush is in town with 10000 of his best men. As people start to realise that they don't all need a datacentre dedicated to Oracle (probably the size of a small planet, in order to cram in all that hardware), expect to see more of a presence for open source database systems, and the commercial ones with a relatively small footprint (eg. Sybase).
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