Re: recent drivel posted by Tony Rogerson on his blog

On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:02:37 +0100, "Tony Rogerson"
<tonyrogerson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

And I stand by the content because to outside coming in the documentation
structure sucks big time, unless you are familiar - looks like years of
experience gets you familiar enough to use it then it's hard to find what
you are looking for.

Sure, you have established, and will probably establish it over and
over again here, you won't ever admit you are in error, even when
pointed in the correct direction.
I could equally well state the sqlserver documentation sucks big time
-and actually it does- unless you have been working with it for years.
There is one big difference: Most Oracle developers don't try to turn
sqlserver into Oracle.
All sqlserver developers try to turn Oracle into sqlserver.
In some cases sqlserver developers have even convinced customers to
replace Oracle for sqlserver, because 'Oracle doesn't work'.
Which is of course incorrect.

--
Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA
.

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