They need the features when doing comparisons with other products . My problem
is that the amount of bugs seems to be growing the last few years , which I
attribute to some change in the QA / Testing process . It is quite irritating
to trip onto some bug, then find out the bug report has been languishing for
2-3 years without progress .
My other complaint is that the documentation effort seems to have slacked off .
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On Oct 23, 2022, at 6:16 PM, Chris Taylor <christopherdtaylor1994@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
This is going to sound like old man / old technologist complaints, and it may
be.
But I am a technologist and the more I work with new versions of Oracle , the
less and less satisfied I am with the new versions.
Stuffing JSON, XML, CDC and whatever else into the database server *used to
make sense* when the db server was the power house - when CPU, storage,
network were expensive and your db server had all the horse power.
Today is not that day. Today you can spin up a middle tier cluster with tons
of CPU power, god awful network bandwidth and amazing storage.
Since 12.1 I have spent more time with support and yelling at them to listen
and to get an engineer on the call then all the years before (going back to
7.1).
These ORA-01555 errors that come up with everything _besides_ actual rollback
/ undo space issues are incredibly incredibly annoying.
It's no wonder people are leaving Oracle in DROVES - you have the licensing,
you have the bugs and you have the support issues.
Add to that Oracle stuffs their database product with so much stuff that no
one uses, its no wonder people are leaving.
I'm so fed up and looking forward to getting off Oracle and re-routing my
career into something new (postgres, snowflake, dynamo db , anything besides
Oracle and their issues).
End of rant. Just wondering if I'm alone in this or not?
Chris
