Obstacle
The less I use Microsoft products, the more I miss them. Books, tutorials, manuals, a complicated in itself third-party software tool which smells worse than its namesake animal and which is, of course, awfully expensive; all of this to try to manage that arcane, meaningless, cryptic and obscure piece of bloatware that from now on I’ll refer to exclusively as Obstacle. I’ve never seen a software less usable and more unfriendly: everything with it is complicated, or slow, or difficult to do. Failing that, you don’t have permissions to do it. It gives, really, the impression that Obstacle is so badly designed purposefully, so that a legion of arcane priests, also known as consultants, can perpetuate themselves and their inmoral high fares just by adoring this hellspawn.
Everything I’ve learned to do in SQL Server has been done with my mouse’s right button. Simple, elegant, intuitive and usable.
And no, sorry, but I’m not admitting that Obstacle is faster, or more powerful. It’s irrelevant to the argument at hand: I could have a very powerful and very fast Ferrari, but what’s the use if it has a potato for a driving wheel?
For all this 1:
1.- And much more: there’s no boolean type field, but you have a VARCHAR2, for God’s sake! What in blazes is a VARCHAR2, and how the hell did it make it past the (very early) stages of development?
