RE: how good is oracle tech support?
- From: "MacGregor, Ian A." <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 14:50:48 -0700
Tech support deals with quite a few people who strive to or perhaps easily
remain ignorant about all things Oracle. This often means you have to pass
the, "I am not an idiot!" test. Support is a strong believer in reduction of
all problems to a small solution set. When the answer to your problem isn't in
the solution set, you will need to convince the analyst of that. Once done,
support has almost always been great. At one time U.K. support was better
than U.S., and for tricky problems you would wait for Bracknell to take over
the support duties.
There are some problems such as ORA-600 problems to which support may not know
the answer. Occasionally a system depending on OCI direct insert capability
would throw the following error
Errors in file /opt/oracle/admin/NLCO/udump/nlco_ora_29253.trc:
ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [kpodpmop_01], [0], [], [], [], [],
[], []
Support couldn't figure it out. A few days ago starting at 3 am the error
became common place. It turned out to be a bad signal from a test klystron
assembly resulting in bad floating point data.
Ian MacGregor
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
From: Jared.Still@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:Jared.Still@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 12:30 PM
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: how good is oracle tech support?
> There are two ways to look at a "trivial request":
>
> 1- You should not need to open a tar to find the answer
Indeed. It is a good idea to do a fair amount of research before opening a
tar. You can see if other people have had the same problem, and how they may
have resolved it.
You will also become much better educated about the problem you are trying to
solve.
Do your research in MetaLink, the documentation and with search engines. I've
been favoring teoma.com lately for oracle searches.
MetaLink is at times underrated I think. It is really quite good.
Compare it to some other vendor support sites. Veritas for instance has a lot
of documentation and information available on their web site, but it is rather
difficult at times to find what you need.
Also take advantage of the RDA tool. It can be quite useful in tracking down
some pesky problems.
Jared
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