I was going through TIOBE list of programming languages and I noticed that PL/SQL is going down. Its not that i am big fan of Pl/SQL, I hardly know it but my question is if Pl/Sql is going down then there must be some alternate which is helping developers to achieve the same tasks which were supposed to be done by Pl/SQL i.e. stored procedures, packages etc? What are those things?
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I think your reading into it the wrong way. PL/SQL is an extension of Oracle's database. If PL/SQL is in decline then most likely Oracle is losing market share.
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thats what i am thinking. But last answer confused me a lot. Look at the TIOBE index and you will notice that Pl/Sql is declining. – x.509 Nov 26 '10 at 21:33
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FWIW, it's possible to write Oracle stored procedures in Java. As it happens, for non-trivial operations, I prefer doing that to using PL/SQL. But I doubt that there are very many like me, so I think that it's unlikely to account for the decline.
See also the answers to this question: Is PL/SQL the language to learn if you have Oracle 11g?
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Also Oracle Forms applications are nowadays more heading to JDeveloper, so interface programming will be made more with Java than with PL/SQL. Like Oracle's e-busines suite...
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That would be Transact-SQL.
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isn't it specific to microsoft? or i am missing lots of things here .. S:? – x.509 Nov 26 '10 at 21:30
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Yes, Microsoft is gaining market share. Therefore Oracle is losing it. Therefore PL/SQL is going down. – ta.speot.is Nov 26 '10 at 22:00