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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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[–] pero@lemm.ee 35 points 1 year ago (5 children)

As someone who had that misfortune to work woth their products, this tracks just great. Honestly. I've used their Apex and SQL developer. Both of them are unintuitive to use, inconsistent, lacking features, and just a complete resource hogs in their own ways. Makes me wonder how they are still keeping themselves afloat, considering the abhorrent state and quality their products are.

[–] Lenggo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh god, Apex. I was trying to enjoy my morning. Unintuitive isn't even the right way to describe it. It has to be the most complicated way to build an application and that's just sticking with the templates. Even knowing what I would need to change would require guess work and 5 minutes of hunting to find the action that may not even work

[–] pero@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I sincerely despise how it hides the primary keys of a table when creating a interactive grid with a form subpage for entering new data, I have to unhide the primary key twice, on two different places. I know it does that for the master details as well, and I think it does the same for reports as well. Like, come on! It's so infuriating how much time i have to waste just changing the primary key to be visible. Won't even gonna mention how much it's necessary to scroll to change a field to a dropdown list. The RESTful services are at least somewhat straightforward. Really like when it gives me "Under unscheduled maintenance" and then I gotta figure if it's my SQL or they being down for real... Also for some reason, all of Oracle's pages just take foooreever to load on my network. It's not my router, it's not my connection, since all other websites just load fine...

In both cases, I was using Oracle products for seminar projects. Specifically for Apex, I had to make a simple database with 15 tables, and visualise all of them in the Apex as a page. I am empathetic to anyone who has to use either in a production environment on a real project...

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I thought you could just go to the UI settings within the SQL Workshop and unmark the PK as Hidden for that

[–] pero@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't seem to be able to locate that option in the SQL Workshop... If true that'd saved me so much time, since that wasn't shown to me during the course. Thanks anyway, though! 👍

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It's been a while since I've used Apex so I hope you find the solution, I remember messing with the default settings a lot before it became useful at all

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We used JCaps for hospital interfaces… when the time came to renew licenses, they literally ghosted us until we just moved to a different engine

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Makes me wonder how they are still keeping themselves afloat, considering the abhorrent state and quality their products are.

Their main business model is patent/trademark infringement lawsuits.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Ancient service contracts with companies who wouldn't be able to afford migrating to a new ecosystem. That's all that's keeping most of these older tech companies afloat.

[–] Stupidmanager@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I recall My company at the time was getting free rehosting pro serve and 6 months active credit. Heavy oracle rac shop. Now, 6 years on they are stuck. I offered to migrate them off oracle but the CEO likes oracle. Down with the ship, I guess.