this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2026
554 points (97.8% liked)

Programmer Humor

32836 readers
2162 users here now

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

you can only run Oracle databases if you sign a contract saying you won’t compare it to other systems

lol, now that's a policy that speaks to being confident in their product!

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The usual whataboutism people reply with every time I point this is that Microsoft does the same.

What is correct, Microsoft does the same :)

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

How would you know ... unless you compared them?

Lawsuits incoming!

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Well, the stuff in my post is obvious enough that you don't need to actually look for it.

My first experience with Oracle was taking out all the government services from my state because I passed a DBA a script that inserted too much data in a transaction...