I feel for all y'all who are suffering from Oracle's slow Support. I have come to realize how lucky we are here at AISD in this regard. All of our major Apps are 3rd Party COTS and they're usually slow to go to the next Oracle version. Therefore, we're always way "behind the curve" with Oracle releases. Our Finance/HR app is still on 9i. All of our other 30 or so DBs are 10g 10.2.0.4. That has turned out to be an advantage. In the eight years I've been here, I've only had one database recovery issue that I needed Support and that was about seven years ago. Every other issue we've belatedly come across has already been solved and a search of MetaLink or MOS provided the answer. So, if you possibly can, I highly recommend avoiding the "bleeding edge" like the plague. We're not planning on going to 11g, even if our vendors support it, until maybe 11.2.0.3 or .4. The "trailing edge" is sweet. Jack C. Applewhite - Database Administrator Austin I.S.D. - MIS Department 512.414.9715 (wk) / 512.935.5929 (pager) From: Guillermo Alan Bort <cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx> To: wbfergus@xxxxxxxxx Cc: aachleon@xxxxxxxxx, oracledbaquestions@xxxxxxxxx, ORACLE-L <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: 04/19/2010 02:25 PM Subject: Re: oracle support response time Sent by: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx I have a high priority issue and cannot open an SR, I keep getting an error. And I cannot use the 'contact us' link either since it is, in fact, an SR. MOS definitely sucks, and support level has fallen seriously since two years ago. I will have to call in the SR, which is a haggle and then I'll have to upload the files to the FTP and it's been ages since I did that... anyway... just needed to vent a little. Alan.- On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Bill Ferguson <wbfergus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: It's too bad they don't have somebody you can complain to that actually cares. Those "How did we do?" surveys are pretty useless in my opinion, I don't think anybody looks at those except for the total of the numbers each month. -- -- Bill Ferguson -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l