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Re:Warren Buffett sells his Oracle shares, retains $44B inve... by bitxbit on Saturday March 02, 2019 @04:17PM (#19291218)
I think it’s pretty insane that it’s taking companies this long to transition away from Oracle.
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Re:Warren Buffett sells his Oracle shares, retains $44B inve... by cwbrandsma on Saturday March 02, 2019 @06:52PM (#19291869)
Many of the Oracle system I worked on were huge. Hundreds or thousands of stored procedures that would have to be completely rewritten. Migrating the data...that is easy. Staring down a 10,000 line stored procedure is daunting.
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