Re: Top Databases Used

Um, Mr. Wildpony... I think what you are responding to is not for the benefit of competent DBA's but a rant against the Jr. High mentality that has prevailed here from a pair of DBA wannabes. At least you were able to give a valid reason for your preference for working with Oracle. wildpony <z1wildpony@hotmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > If the Oracle Manuals are as difficult to read as I saw posted here, >> > then I suppose it's no surprise that you have no idea about Oracle's >> > capabilities. >> >> THAT's the problem! I, an individual of no little intellect, who has used >> as DBA, user, and programmer every major and many minor RDBMS >> products on the market since 1981 does not have a clue about the >> features and capabilities of the most popular (by sales) database package >> available today and the reason is that its manuals are so bad that such an >> experienced, sophisticated, and intelligent user cannot make heads or >> tails of their content. Damn, I should have seen it! >> > >I currently work on three RDBMS ORACLE/ INFORMIX and SQL SLOW but my high >hourly rate is only >as high as it is , is because it is very hard to find a good ORACLE DBA with >5+ more years experience >I have no qualms with any RDBMS , I personally and professionally prefer to >use my ORACLE experience to >get me the hourly rate that i feel i need and deserve. >SO if you want to abuse and belittle ORACLE DBA's go right ahead but that just >happens to be where the money is at the >current time. >and go ahead OTC I am sure you are ready to abuse me for the above comment but >that's okay, because I have had up to 100 instances of >ORACLE database's on multiple platforms AIX/HP/SUN/NT and mine have never >crashed .....they have been up and running for 2 + years without >a problem..now my OS may have crapped out on me because of hard drive problems >, but my databases have always been recoverable is less time then it took to >replace or swap a hard drive > > carlos Currently on hiatus from unemployment. ---------------------- Do you do Linux? :) Get your FREE @linuxstart.com email address at: http://www.linuxstart.com