It's true that you need the most efficient tool to do the job at hand and the total cost of ownership is one of the considerations. There are also many...

An instance of Oracle, while sharing the binaries, has a whole separate dictionary (catalog) and a separate set of tasks In windows. It can be started and stopped independently of...

Oracle has sequences and SQL has identity columns - I curse the person who designed identity columns.

Oracle does not let reads block writes or writes block reads. This is, without...