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Re:The Curious Case of the Aggregation Query by jhoechtl on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @04:49PM (#38537408)
> Oracle DB, one of the most used databases.

Is it still? Maybe 20 years ago but it's been a long time that I met an It guy who talked about himself having worked with an Oracle DB recently.

It's all PostgreSQL, MS SQL and MySQL/MariaDB where I work.

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Re:The Curious Case of the Aggregation Query by tsimionescu on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @02:59AM (#38541493)
Here is an article on Statista claiming it is in fact the most used by quite some margin:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/809750/worldwide-popular...

I have no idea if that is even close to correct, but I am sure it is still one of the most used RDBMS out there, out of pure inertia if nothing else. Plus, from what I've heard from a friend who worked with a few commercial. DBs, it's actually pretty good software, it's dealing with Oracle licensing and outrageous audit practices that is killing it.

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