Re: FW: Bank Databases
- From: Norman Dunbar <oracle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 08:26:31 +0100
Banks are no different from other large IT establishments. Some are good
and well done, others leave a lot to be desired. Some of the things I've
had to deal with in banks (in the UK and abroad) are monumentally silly:
"We don't allow triggers because not all databases use them, we want to
be able to hold the vendor to ransom by switching to a different
database back end" - shame the whole application's back end was PL/SQL
which, as we all know, is database agnostic! ;-)
As for "best practices". Well, let's just say, few and far between. And
for certain values of "best".
How about still running Windows 3.11, even now? Internet Explorer 5.5 is
de-rigeur, yes, today. Even the UK Government is on IE 6.0!
I could go on, but that's about as much as the NDAs allow. :-(
Cheers,
Norm.
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Norman Dunbar
Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd
Registered address:
Thorpe House
61 Richardshaw Lane
Pudsey
West Yorkshire
United Kingdom
LS28 7EL
Company Number: 05132767
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