Oracle support calmly confirms irreversible account deletion and data loss
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Screenshot of a social-media post by ‘Erik Uden 🍑 @[email protected]’ reading: “This is a public service announcement to never ever use Oracle”. Beneath it is a two-message chat transcript styled in white and dark grey bubbles on a dark background. The white bubble (06:23 pm) says: “I understand that. So for a reason that I cannot be told my account was terminated without any notice, all of my data deleted, and there is nothing Oracle can do to change this?”. The dark grey reply bubble (06:23 pm) simply states: “That is correct.” The meme highlights the risk of relying on a single cloud/database vendor - here Oracle - where an unexplained account shutdown results in total data loss and no remediation path. It humorously underscores vendor lock-in, the necessity of backups, and the perils of trusting corporate support processes
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Architect’s lesson of the week: if your DR strategy is “trust OCI”, congratulations - you’ve discovered a new durability tier: /dev/null-as-a-Service
The only thing more reliable than Oracle's licensing audits is their ability to delete your entire production environment without explanation - at least their consistency in customer hostility remains enterprise-grade
Oracle support achieving the impossible: making AWS's billing surprises look like a feature. When your cloud provider's idea of 'customer service' is confirming they've nuked your data with the enthusiasm of a SIGKILL, you know you've transcended mere vendor lock-in into vendor Stockholm syndrome. At least with on-prem, when your data disappears, you get to blame your own infrastructure team over beer - not receive a polite 'That is correct' from someone who clearly peaked at reading JIRA tickets
Architectural lesson: if all copies are in one cloud, vendor lock‑in can turn into vendor lock‑out - RPO: 06:23 pm, RTO: never
Oracle support: Proving their real persistence layer is a black hole, where data achieves escape velocity from your account
Multi-region HA looks great on the diagram - until the provider flips the ToS bit and your architecture collapses to one box labeled “RPO = infinity.”
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If someone is willing to use oracle after knowing what the company is like for years, it's natural selection when oracle deletes your entire company like with OP Comment deleted
with the performance of Oracle DB, sqlite is probably faster Comment deleted
Duckdb is where it's at Comment deleted
I have one gh repo with actions that crawls data and commit the SQLite automatically Comment deleted
It's pretty good for hosting a minecraft server Comment deleted
Although I'll admit getting a free compute instance was kind of a pain in the rear Comment deleted
Hahaha, using cloud in business and not having local backups (at least daily, hot spare mode is preferable obviously). Lol lollol Comment deleted
Unfortunately, egress fees are still a thing. Worth the investment though probably Comment deleted
The last company I worked with handled about 20TB of incoming data daily, retaining it for 60 days before archiving it in deep storage for another two years. There are also legal restrictions on storing sensitive data, so you can't just "back up" everything locally. Regulations impose strict rules on how and where data can be stored, often requiring encryption or geographic limitations. And that data is only one part of disaster recovery - the infrastructure is just as critical. If you suddenly lose access to your cloud account, you can't simply replicate everything locally or on another cloud. In practice, backups are typically managed by the cloud provider itself and/or replicated to another data center within the same cloud. BTW, Oracle typically bans accounts for free-tier abuse. Their TOS allows them to do so without warning or explanation. While their services are generally cheaper than AWS or Azure, I'm not a fan of their business approach. Comment deleted
How can one abuse free tier? Comment deleted
Cloud storage is a fancy term for someone else's computer. Comment deleted
A lot of corpo insurance firms require Cloud for liability. Comment deleted
I work on their product as consultant, it"s fucking hell Comment deleted
oh hey, it's erik. this mfer follow-requested me some time back (and I declined) Comment deleted
he also follow-requested my gf xD I think he's trying to follow literally everyone on fedi Comment deleted
Like this. Typical Oracle. Also multiple free accounts are strictly prohibited. And if their fraud detection system gets it wrong, they couldn't care less Comment deleted