The Oracle feature set is often brought up as an argument (for? against?) when comparing it against other databases. And it is indeed a huge feature set and it’s pretty great to use, but granted, the Oracle documentation can be pretty dry to read.
For example, check out the documentation for the NTILE Function. Yeah, sounds kind of boring. What good could it be in the wonderful world of web development? After all, who manages employee or sales tables anymore…
Answer: generating tag clouds.
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