Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 17, 2002 01:19 AM
What you really mean is
Oracle installation is generally painless if your running it in a windows environment. Because that's the only excuse I can find for it's installation procedures....
We had a parent company project bring in a oracle consultant at the usual rate for oracle people. I was assigned to help him get oracle going on an IBM RS/6000. The first day I was working on other things.. the second day I watched him install and answered basic questions about file systems and how to run commands.... The third day I spent most of it on the phone but they wanted to get some progress so he was working late... while he continued to try and get oracle to run I downloaded and installed DB2 under linux... Management wanted a "commercial database" for that project and as it wasn't our management.
Our data backend continues to be postgres and we have had zero crashes in the last year. We have had zero problems restoring the database from backup. And It took all of about 20 minutes to install (from cd) and create the first database.
Not everything is bad about Oracle but the fact that they can't even get an installer right on a comercial AIX tells me a lot about the attitude of the project.
Although Oracle was finally brought up it never did achieve any degree of reliability needed to actually deploy that project.
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Re:Oracle supports ANSI99 outer join syntax
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 17, 2002 01:19 AMOracle installation is generally painless if your running it in a windows environment. Because that's the only excuse I can find for it's installation procedures....
We had a parent company project bring in a oracle consultant at the usual rate for oracle people. I was assigned to help him get oracle going on an IBM RS/6000. The first day I was working on other things.. the second day I watched him install and answered basic questions about file systems and how to run commands.... The third day I spent most of it on the phone but they wanted to get some progress so he was working late... while he continued to try and get oracle to run I downloaded and installed DB2 under linux... Management wanted a "commercial database" for that project and as it wasn't our management.
Our data backend continues to be postgres and we have had zero crashes in the last year. We have had zero problems restoring the database from backup. And It took all of about 20 minutes to install (from cd) and create the first database.
Not everything is bad about Oracle but the fact that they can't even get an installer right on a comercial AIX tells me a lot about the attitude of the project.
Although Oracle was finally brought up it never did achieve any degree of reliability needed to actually deploy that project.
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