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I'm hearing quite a lot about Oracle, and I've had a very brief look into it, but I'm wondering about others' opinions. What're the advantages/disadvantages, etc?

DaWei

Well, it's not a language, is that what you meant?

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skoob

Dear DaWei you aren't helping a lot so ... why you don't take a break and thing positive. that will help you in your life with your family and with our programmers;

Infinite Recursion

Oracle is a very nice database, and very large with a lot of intricate details. The down side is, it cost a bit of money, so the free alternative would be MySQL. If you want to code in Oracle, learn PL/SQL.

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Arevos

Or PostgreSQL

Infinite Recursion

Indeed, another free alternative. But for some reason, and I'm not entirely sure why, I favor MySQL over PostgreSQL.

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Ooble

Same here... Pizentios doesn't like it. It could be because my host provides MySQL, not PostgreSQL...

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King

What Infinite Recursion said… Oracle is awesome, but extremely expensive... so I would recommend MySQL.

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xavier

Oracle also has a free version that can store a maximum of 4GB:

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Booooze

Isn't the license for Oracle like $10,000 or something? Only extremly big companies can get there hands on it, and only big comapnies would need something so advanced.