Gotta love decisions from above without asking anyone doing the actual work with said tech/product.
I worked at a company that bought 2 oracle servers (racks? Not sure, over $200K though, over 10 years ago now) because it was going to magically make everything better. We were on mysql at the time and there was a large effort to rewrite all our table/column names to work with oracle (there was some stupid length limit and maybe some characters weren’t allowed). The project was abandoned and the exec who signed off on it had left to screw up some other company.
It was many years before we were able to reverse the name changes (they made writing queries miserable and the names were confusing due to the abbreviations or lack of vowels) and more years still after that before we managed to turn those racks collecting dust into NAS storage for backups.
I worked at a company that bought 2 oracle servers (racks? Not sure, over $200K though, over 10 years ago now) because it was going to magically make everything better. We were on mysql at the time and there was a large effort to rewrite all our table/column names to work with oracle (there was some stupid length limit and maybe some characters weren’t allowed). The project was abandoned and the exec who signed off on it had left to screw up some other company.
It was many years before we were able to reverse the name changes (they made writing queries miserable and the names were confusing due to the abbreviations or lack of vowels) and more years still after that before we managed to turn those racks collecting dust into NAS storage for backups.