Re: Python vs. PL/SQL for Oracle work

From: HansF <News.Hans_at_telus.net>
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 17:36:59 GMT
Message-Id: <pan.2006.03.02.17.36.59.533717@telus.net>

On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 18:23:59 +0100, Volker Hetzer wrote:

> HansF schrieb:

>> On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 06:57:44 -0800, dananrg wrote:
>> Oracle Spatial does not pretend to compete with ESRI in the ability to
>> manage the spatial information. It does provide storage that is
>> compatible with ESRI and many other tools and it provides alternate ways
>> of using the data.
>>
>> It does a wonderful job of storing it, although I have seen and heard
>> about some limitations. A number of these limitations are discussed in
>> the Oracle Spatial Forum in the Discussion Forums at http://otn.oracle.com

> Before this gets misunderstood, oracle doesn't just provide storage, but
> you can do queries too, like all intersecting geometries and lots more.
> It's often a bit tricky to get the execution plans right, but after you've
> done it, it's great.
> 

You are correct. That is what I meant by the next paragraph (snipped) in which I said

"It has reasonably good support for LRS and, in 10g, reasonable support for Topology and Network extensions, along with autorouting."

Thanks for the expansion.

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