Re: Oracle and Java. Does Oracle know something some of us don't?

Originally posted by Dmz17
> > There is not a chance that Oracle would put its future success
> or failure into the hands of someone
> > else's Board of Directors. There are no numbers small enough to
> express the chance of that happening.
> >
> > Daniel Morgan
>
> I disagree. Oracle knows that PL/SQL is proprietary as hell.
> Supporting
> Sun's Java (oxymoron, I know) makes Oracle smell like a rose.
>
> If I had my way, nobody would use PL/SQL because they would not be
> portable.
>
> Funny, portability is what Oracle has preached for years.
>
> To Microsoft, portability means it runs on all versions of Windows. To
> Oracle it means it runs on/in every Oracle Database.
>
> Cheers,
>
> dmz17

Why would you want the stored procedures to be portable? The architecture, locking mechanisms, etc of the various databases are different. If you ever tried to write portable stored procedures ( even in Java), say something that works on Oracle and SQL Server, you'd have something that is very slow. And for what - so that IF someone in the future MAY decide to change databases, we wont need to recode the stored procedures.

• rajXesh

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