Re: oracle : The lowdown

[Tim Bunce]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 01:20:21PM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately, Oracle support is an ongoing criminal enterprise.  Unless
> you have the most expensive of all of their support contracts, and a
> former Oracle VP on your staff, you will not get any support period.  If
> you mention Perl, you can forget about getting bugs fixed, even when the
> bugs are clearly in the RDBMS and not the client.  You have been warned.

That situation is improving (I have been told). Especially now the
DBD::Oracle can trace OCI calls. Just tell them that you have a
particularly advanced OCI application, and don't mention Perl :-)

Tim.