Re: An interesting meeting with IBM

Neil Truby wrote: > My experience of trying to sell technical support bears you out. Oracle > *is* highly idiosyncratic, and although the principles of all these DBMSs > are the same a lot here is different. It's quite difficult to blag, even > for an accomplished blagger like me :-). SQL Server *is* trivial by > comparison, and this has its own drawbacks - although we have a couple of > SQL Server support contracts from companies familiar with the concept of > specialist database administration, and they are easy to service, most > customers simply don't perceive a need for specialist SQL Server DBA > activities. And in many cases they may be right. What is blag, please? Is tuning exercise? -- Enor