Friday, March 23, 2007

Quote For The Day

"PL/SQL development can be a tedious and time-consuming job – often monopolizing the valuable time and efforts of Oracle developers." - SQL Navigator page, Quest Software

Spare a thought today for PL/SQL developers, having their precious time tediously monopolised by, umm, PL/SQL development.

7 comments:

William Robertson said...

> and we can get on with looking at how inefficiently that database is running.

The DBAs will be doing that. We'll be down the pub.

Anonymous said...

PL/SQL tedious... yeah, they're right. Just do it in Java in the database. Everybody knows java nowadays. You can even use TOAD for all your Java development ;-)

Scott Swank said...

Yes, time which could otherwise be put toward:

- trying to figure out why their Forms frames aren't nested the way they ought to be

- trying to figure out why their Reports frames aren't nested the way they ought to be

- clicking on things in ApEx

- learning Java/JDev/ADF -- and then clicking on things in ADF

William Robertson said...

Perhaps these "Oracle developers" who don't want to waste their valuable time on Oracle development are like this guy:

"The thing is , we are on the ETL side over here and dont a good idea of databases,etc."

Anonymous said...

I guess the Java people were right all along... It just takes someone like Quest to throw a good sobering slap: PL/SQL is tedious and should be avoided if possible.

Anonymous said...

"streamlines workflow by adding a drag-and-drop, graphical user interface"

Ah, yes. Just what everyone needs: a D&D GUI. Could there be anything more efficient than endlessly mousing back and forth across the screen?

Anything like a keyboard? An SQL prompt? A knowledge of the data dictionary?

I don't know what other folks do. Personally, I prefer to let the database write most of my code for me. All the metadata is there, so let the RDBMS write the code.

Anonymous said...

I think y'all missed the point. If you have bad or even worse, no tools, then PL/SQL dev work is tedious. If you have SQL Navigator on the other hand, its as "insert metaphor here"