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Oracle is an excellent database system but it is hardly for the "faint of heart".
It is in many respects overly complex and learning to use it efficiently can be a hurdle. However, Oracle was also not designed to be used at the departmental level of application development. It is for all intents and purposes a database designed for enormous transaction processing, which it does quite well.
It is also designed for very heavy database intensive organizations that require speed and the complexities that come with it.
Organizations that have been doing well with SQL Server will often find the move to Oracle quite arduous and if the organization is a small or medium sized company they may find the effort not to be worth it.
Oracle installations also require experienced DBAs to manage and fine tune it. It is not simply a developer's database.
If you need the capabilities that Oracle provides, the database cannot be beat. However, if you are looking to simply upgrade from a good SQL Server implementation the costs will most likely not be justified.
For the majority of applications you will develop you will most likely not need the power of Oracle unless of course you are working in such an organization that does.
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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Did you try CONNECT BY queries in Oracle? So much cooler than the equivalent way of doing it in SQL Server with Common Table Expressions.
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Yes I did! Pretty cool, but it requires a shift in thinking
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Besides Windows, it runs on Unix / Linux (if that's your bag).
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I think that's a microscope and not telescope. They look like amoebas.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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The universe is a giant fractal.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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if you type a word one key off, google corrects it - go see jrtr[^]!
Either clever or they just have too much time [and money]
veni bibi saltavi
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you were just lucky
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: Either clever or they just have too much time [and money] Both.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Man, I am showing my age! When first read the title, I thought of Visual FoxPro
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You and me both, brother .
Software Zen: delete this;
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I admit - it was only because I just spent 6 (long, torturous, baldness producing, "why did they do THAT!") months converting Visual FoxPro apps to C#
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What's so clever about it?
You got a dictionary, you do a lookup on a soundex and present the top 1 as "did you mean..". It's not like it is something new.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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... because who pays attention to the praise/rant threads for a tool they're not using at the time? (Not me obviously.)
Anyway I need something that's touch friendly (our target's a tablet, but not Android or iOS or W10 apps due to concerns about hardware interfacing and not suitable for a general app store + sideloading being a pita). My immediate needs are for:
0) Configurable keyboard and numberpads - the customer doesn't want to use the generic windows onscreen keyboard because of extraneous keys around the edge needed for Windows but not their app.
1) A grid control with better sizing than the default MS one: Specifically being able to resize with larger fonts as stretched horizontally instead of wider lines without nuking the vertical scrollbar. I'll also need something like the expanded detail view in the MS one, or support for heterogeneous rows that I can use to add optional additional metadata below some items.
2) A textblock that would scale the text and insert line breaks to best fill the available space inside buttons would be nice as well although I'm pretty sure I could build this from scratch if I needed to.
3) A pricing model that's either FOSS, flat rate, or pay per developer. I've been told if the price is reasonable getting my new employer to pay shouldn't be a problem, the customer has stated they don't want something that's pay per install even if only a few dollars. If paid a trial/demo mode version of the library would probably be helpful if paid here as well so the customer could at least build and fiddle with code drops locally.
4) Good support from the developer and source access without breaking the bank are desirable on my end.
5) I also want a puppy, or a pony, or maybe a unicorn. Pretty please mommy. I know it's not too much to ask.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I've used Telerik WPF control before and they are decent.
Syncfusion has a community version that might suit you.
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Dan Neely wrote: Looks like I'm going to have talk to sales people afterall
You could post the requirement on the Telerik support forum and get an answer from a techie rather than a sales person.
We use telerik but are not very adventurous with it so I can't really recommend if for the stuff you are asking for.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Yeah. I think that's what makes it so watchable.
Me? I'm just hoping the holodeck is hosed down with disinfectant between sessions...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Really, I was under the impression that the Holodeck was for Patrick Stewart to show off his acting skills by being practically every Shakespearean character. Also to give the writers a 'place' to have non-sensible story lines...
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glennPattonWorking wrote: non-sensible story lines
In contrast to what exactly?
veni bibi saltavi
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Not a Star Trek fan, or general sci-fi (the best predictor of up & coming tech)?
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I kind of liked Star Trek as a child, but find it, and the many spin offs, uninspiring now. The three Star Wars films are still very watchable though.
veni bibi saltavi
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