While I can't stand Oracle as a company, I have very fond memories of Oracle RDBMS documentation around the early 2000s. And the product itself was also leagues

While I can't stand Oracle as a company, I have very fond memories of Oracle RDBMS documentation around the early 2000s. And the product itself was also leagues ahead of the competition. I feel guilty even today thinking about the SQL abominations I've thrown at it under the guidance of a very ambitious product/project manager that seemingly didn't understand the difference between a OLAP and an OLTP instance. And most of the time, the optimizer and query engine and whatever governed the allocation of resources in Oracle found a way to satisfy my SQL monsters without bringing everyone else down to a halt.