Miscellaneous Oracle Funnies

Working eight hours a day with a product, you notice not only bugs, but other strange bits and pieces too. This is the page for them.

  • One mis-spelling of ‘Oracle’ looks remarkably like ‘Roach.’ Surely not just a coincidence.
  • Mis-typing ‘ORACLE_SID’ often looks like ‘ORACLE_SOD’ which is only one word short of what you usually think when you’ve done this.