Post #4039771
2026-07-23 15:40 UTC
Replies (7)
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@flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 2026-07-23 15:47
I doubt many people are picking it these days. But someone did 20 years ago. And now you’re stuck with the headache.
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@bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-07-23 15:56
I’ve never picked Oracle, but I think their sales pitch is basically to make a good upfront offer with tons of credits which you can’t ignore. The credits expire in like 3 years or something which seems long, and when you’re chasing quarterly profits, cutting your provider cost by 60% helps you look like you made things more profitable. They’re banking on vendor lock in and inertia to keep you in after the credits run out and then they can squeeze you for money.
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@BevsDad@lemmy.ca 2026-07-23 16:02
Pretty sure we had a deal with them years ago where we were required to use oracle products for everything. So that’s how we ended up with so many of out apps running on oracle DBs.
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@rtxn@lemmy.world 2026-07-23 16:03
Oracle sponsors our university to teach their flavour of SQL (Oracle SQL, not MySQL) with their SQL Developer rather than any of the competitors, free or otherwise. One of the DBA teachers once told me that there are enough differences between Oracle and other flavours that the knowledge isn’t immediately transferrable, so when students graduate, all they know is Oracle, and they perpetuate the cycle.
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@IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 2026-07-23 15:47
Twice a year I fill in as DBA when our lady graybeard Oracle DBA takes vacation. This month is one of those times. Yay me. For my org, it's just the massive in-house developed line-of-business application that's tightly coupled to Oracle that keeps us chained to it. It's technical debt from top to bottom, and has been accumulating steadily since the early 2010s, but no one seems willing to start replacing it. The new projects typically go with Postgres, MariaDB, or if all else fails, MSSQL. But the Oracle monster in the closet isn't likely to leave any time soon.
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@JoMiran@lemmy.ml 2026-07-23 16:38
Oracle is the choice if you need a high performance RDBMS capable of processing extreme amounts of data at extreme io rates. Nothing comes close for enterprise level applications. THAT SAID, it requires a special kind of individual to be able to get the most out of it. Even better if that person knows of the existence, value, and use of the many undocumented v$ tables, etc. Once you can migrate most of your data out of an RDBMS, you options open up significantly. For smaller projects. Oracle makes no sense, unless the expectation is vast and rapid growth.
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@Hotzmon@fedinsfw.app 2026-07-23 16:55
10M rows of PL/SQL procedures.