What does PL/SQL do well and what does it not do well?
- PL/SQL is primarily designed to manipulate data. With is language capabilities and close integration with SQL, it does that extremely well.
- As such it is very good for most commercial applications. However, it was not designed to do extremely sophisticated calculations and numerical analysis.
- For example, PL/SQL is not the tool to calculate when to fire rocket engines to control a flight in space.