Re: Does PL-SQL exist only for Oracle or for other database products as well ?

From: Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bortel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 16:26:46 +0100
Message-ID: <er9r5v$f6f$2@news1.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>

Thomas Kellerer schreef:
> Peter Swampton wrote on 18.02.2007 10:43:

>> Sorry for this newbie question: But is PL-SQL a special Oracle script
>> language or does it exist for other database products as well ?
>>

>
> PL/SQL is an Oracle specific language.
>
> The only other DBMS I know of that offers compatibility to Oracle's
> PL/SQL is EnterpriseDB (http://www.enterprisedb.com/) which is based on
> Postgres.
> How far that compatibility goes, I don't know.
>
> Thomas

The Procedural Language extension to SQL, as it is formally known, is Oracle specific.

There may be other acronyms leading to the same, but the semantics would be different.

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Frank van Bortel

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