Re: how to write this sql?

From: <Jared.Still_at_radisys.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 08:46:25 -0700
Message-ID: <OF474981AB.83C10A3D-ON88256ED7.005676F3-88256ED7.0056A4F6@radisys.com>

> I don't understand the tendency to write everything inline.
>

...
>
> What is the fun of creating horrible, unintelligible SQL statements
> intended to
> do this little thing?
>

I suspect it is tied to the performance hit encountered when using stored functions in a SQL statement in older (v7) versions of Oracle.

Using a stored function in SQL then was a huge performance hit.

As of 8i (IIRC) that was no longer true.

Hard learned lessons die just as hard.

Jared

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