I am much like yourself in regards to PL/SQL and my growth in building applications. It sometimes comes with some major drawbacks though when I am working with something I learned in Oracle and find myself in a hole I can not climb out of. But that has only happened once so far.
On 8/27/06, James Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think this is quite true, especially for the contract programmer who > works on various sites, for multiple clients, on differing platforms. > > However, for those who are part or, for example, a particular > Education or Government entity with a single, standard web > infrastructure platform, I think there can be great benefit in > learning the procedural language of the DB in question. In my case I > have a working knowledge of PL/SQL and I'm always trying to improve > it; the O'Reilly book on the subject was a good investment. I also > made an effort to learn some of the particular things about Oracle > that make it special (e.g. the CONNECT BY clause for hierarchical > queries and Oracle Text for full-text searches). > > Of course, I don't expect any other given CF developer, including > those in the top N, to know the first thing about Oracle's SQL > extensions or PL/SQL. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:251190 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
