The last time I used Oracle was 8i, but it certainly supported IF (NOT) EXISTS. I mostly agree with you about scaling down, and culturally Oracle DBAs are big

The last time I used Oracle was 8i, but it certainly supported IF (NOT) EXISTS. I mostly agree with you about scaling down, and culturally Oracle DBAs are big at gatekeeping, but as a fairly junior database developer I was still able to figure out the basics of installing and configuring it, so maybe it's not that bad.