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.

Rick mumbled: You can't get it for nothing! %)



                         
                      "Jim C. Nasby"
                         
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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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