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SoftTalker on March 6, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: 'We had to educate Oracle about our contract,' CIO...

If you were using SQL so generically that you could easily substitute another database, you never should have been using Oracle to begin with.

I guess you could call it "vendor lock-in" to use the more advanced SQL, analytic functions, and stored procedures or you could call it "getting what you paid for."

icedchai on March 6, 2024 [–]

It's similar to the cloud lock-in you see today. (If all you're using is VMs, you're probably better off with something else...)

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