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Re:Oracle vs. PostgreSQL: First Glance by thda on Monday May 04, 2020 @03:54PM (#23072533)
> Also Oracle was the first RDMS to support stored procedures in Java.

Who in their right mind would do that ? It's a nightmare on so many levels....

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Re:Oracle vs. PostgreSQL: First Glance by pjmlp on Monday May 04, 2020 @04:10PM (#23072693)
All big boys RDMS support stored procedures in Java, and some of them in .NET as well on their Windows deployments.
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Re:Oracle vs. PostgreSQL: First Glance by jacques_chester on Monday May 04, 2020 @04:04PM (#23072644)
Because the alternative is PL/SQL, which is Ada minus 90% of the things that make Ada reliable and powerful.
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Re:Oracle vs. PostgreSQL: First Glance by pjmlp on Monday May 04, 2020 @04:11PM (#23072703)
The only stored procedure language that I consider competitive to PL/SQL is Transact-SQL.
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