Its crazy, you would think this is horribly inefficient. I worked a bit with Oracle Siebel, its a customer relations management software and the company decided to use it for its system. The database is just this giant juggernaut with thousands of tables generated automatically, if you look closely there is redundancy everywhere, which I assume is for performance enhancement, but even then it is horribly slow.

Its absolutely drives you nuts because everything, from business information, to server configuration, and even even the interface - menu items, buttons, page layout, links, is stored in the database. Now this may make the software less 'bug free' and thus make less trouble for Oracle, but it is an absolute nightmare for the developer because everything has to be changed through the IDE, which is basically a retarded version of a database browser without the ability to run SQL update command, and only allows you to change one row at a time, you might as well as be a monkey. Working with the database directly is apparently against the rules of Oracle and will revoke the support from Oracle.

Good thing I stopped working there @_@