One of good quotes about Larry I came across recently:
“I’ve thought about this a lot. I really think that it was Larry. There were a lot of other databases (like Ingres) out there that we beat. It was really Larry’s charisma, vision, and his determination to make this thing work no matter what. It’s just the way Larry thinks. I can give you an example I tell people that exemplifies his thought process: We had space allocated to us and we needed to get our terminals strung to the computer room next door. […]

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Let’s start with facts about the each release version of PL/SQL
PL/SQL Version 1.0
It was release as the key component of Oracle Version 6.0. At the time its release it was seen as a major advance in Oracle’s relational database technology. At the same time PL/SQL Engine was incorporated in new version of SQL*Forms V3.0. For the first time on the tools side it enables developers to code their procedural logic in a natural and straightforward manner.

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Sorry guys I was forced to break this posting into number of sequence posting as it looks very length and I think no body has time to read whole of it in one go!
So for a start series 1:
Today I tried to gather facts about PL/SQL history from various source and come up with following paper.
In 1991, Oracle Corporation releases its own procedural language extension to SQL called PL/SQL. It is loosely based on Ada (a variant of Pascal developed for the US Dept of Defense). Before this only way to do procedural programming to do interaction with Oracle Database […]

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