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> but still a fair way behind Oracle in terms of popularity I have a vague feeling that those who use Oracle are using it due to circumstance or corporate nece

• strictfp 5y ago
  Oracle is a hot mess but it also has some really powerful features, like table sharding , that actually works if you manage to set it up correctly.
• pydry 5y ago
  One of the last straws for a job I had once was realizing that the oracle python client would convert money fields into float. Oracle had its tentacles everywhere in that company. I think even they wanted to stop using it but it was just integrated to too much.