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I got a couple of comments on my last post titled ORA-12519, TNS:no appropriate service handler found, with people getting surprised that a self defining “proven industry database” can have such kind of bugs.
It’s a long time that I don’t think Oracle is such that great product – actually I think the opposite – and I wasn’t so much surprised when I had a funny chat with my friend Luigi Zanderighi. The topic of the discussion was a bug on how Oracle JDBC “thin” driver works with JDK 1.5. It seems infact that they implemented it doing weird stuff in serializing and de-serializing data. The result is that if you use JDK 1.5 BigDecimals (which internal representation is changed since JDK 1.5), you can have lot of surprises.
See Luigi Zanderighi’s article titled Critical bug in Oracle driver under jdk > 1.5 using BigDecimal
This one is really huge. At the beginning I was doubting. But… not so much. In Italy we say: conosco i miei polli (I think this could be translated in “I know my chickens”)

So, stop thinking that Oracle database rocks. :-)

P.S. Googling on internet I found that “I know my chickens” is nicely explained here.

P.P.S. I will be happy with Oracle database (and its bugs) when at least I will be able to run it from a USB flash drive.