My boss—a biologist—told me to buy Oracle. Me: What is Oracle, exactly? Boss: It’s a database. Me: Why do we want it? Boss: We have data. We have to put it in a database. Me: I don’t think so. Boss: Our data is important. Don’t argue, just go buy it. It should cost $10,000. 1/2
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out of curiosity, what was your eventual data management solution? in 2018 I'd toss it all in a PostgreSQL instance for $0/mo (excluding hardware/hosting costs) and call it a day. In 1994 that wasn't an option though.
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Flat files. Was all we needed at the time. [Thought I’d replied to this before, but I can’t find my tweet]
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If it was comprehensible and bug-free, you wouldn’t need to hire full-time Oracle DBAs to run it for you. You pay your DBAs, but they are de facto Oracle salespeople. They want you to buy more Oracle so you’ll hire junior DBAs they will manage and so justify a promotion.
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I am so sorry man. I feel your pain. Bosses seldom know what technology they need and much less why. It is good that there are a lot of resources now a days. But it is tough to use them efficiently. This sounds just like a dilbert comic strip or episode.
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You can't stop the story there! What did you figure out about why it happened?
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