On: Are Commercial Databases Worth It?

[neilc]

> CONNECT BY PRIOR on the other hand can be a life saver.

FWIW, the latest beta release of PostgreSQL supports recursive queries (using the SQL standard WITH RECURSIVE rather than CONNECT BY, but still).

[jaxn → neilc]

Thanks for the tip!

The list of features that justify using a commercial database keeps getting shorter each year.