Why on Earth would you want to swap your RDBMS?

I never wrote that. I'm exploring a new platform of curiosity, trying so see what it has to offer. So far it seems very promising.

If you don't know who 'Ask Tom' then perhaps you should find cout.

I bought one of his books and I will continue to read his columns.

As for maintaince nightmares. Yup, I've seen those, Embedded dynamic SQL in Java code was the worst.

I second that.

As for the Oracle client C library, yes its blisteringly fast.

Do you mean replacing DBD::Oracle with some kind of compiled C routines?

Andreas
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