Ahhhh, it was much more polite than that and it was a junior-ish developer. I was new to the team and had already made it clear that while I had some database e

Ahhhh, it was much more polite than that and it was a junior-ish developer. I was new to the team and had already made it clear that while I had some database experience I had zero Oracle experience. I don't fault them too much; when someone suggests something that is completely outside of my mental model of how things work, it takes me a bit of reminding that I need to dig a little deeper to figure out what's going on and not just start jumping to conclusions about competence. It just happened to be a great opportunity for both of us to expand our mental model of how different systems work. If you imagine someone whose mental model is "DML commands can be transactional, DDL modifies the database structure directly" then it's pretty reasonable for them to go "Uh... this guy doesn't seem to know the difference between modifying data and modifying tables..."