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Re:Oracle’s Aggressive Sales Tactics Are Backfiring with Cus... by pjmlp on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @04:17PM (#17129054)
You might not care, millions of Oracle customers, me included do.

The only database that tops Oracle in this regard is Microsoft SQL Server.

PL/SQL is so bad that the beloved PostgreSQL copied it.

Many of us prefer living in the Xerox PARC world, not AT&T.

If I miss playing around with awk, sed, perl, sqlplus, troff, tex, graphviz, ... I know where to find them.

All software has bugs, I just found out more in PostgreSQL than Oracle or SQL Server together, specially in EF bindings.

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Re:Oracle’s Aggressive Sales Tactics Are Backfiring with Cus... by perl4ever on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @02:03AM (#17131738)
The thing I don't like about PL/SQL is mainly the lack of orthogonality to its features. It feels like it was assembled by different groups of people, in different silos, at different times - without an overall vision or even someone who understands it in its entirety.
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