Re: PostgreSQL vs. Oracle vs. Microsoft

Jim wrote: you'd be hard-pressed to find too many real-world examples where
you could do
something with a PostgreSQL procedural language that you couldn't do
with PL/SQL.

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"Jim C. Nasby"
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tgresql.org Subject: Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL vs. Oracle vs. Microsoft


01/10/2005 06:29 PM

On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 12:46:01PM -0500, Alex Turner wrote:
> You sir are correct! You can't use perl in MS-SQL or Oracle ;).

On the other hand, PL/SQL is incredibly powerful, especially combined
with all the tools/utilities that come with Oracle. I think you'd be
hard-pressed to find too many real-world examples where you could do
something with a PostgreSQL procedural language that you couldn't do
with PL/SQL.
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