Advantages of using oracle

Hello guyz... I never even tried to use oracle in my projects.. but I am curious what are the advantages of using Oracle compared with the other database....

plus the warm fuzzy feeling of creating employment for hungry Oracle DBAs :)
Just kidding. Oracle is a good database to know just because it's used so much.
So even if it weren't exceedingly powerful, stable, and versatile you'd still be doing yourself a disservice by not knowing at least something about it.

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    AnanthaP wrote:
    Full subject : Enforcing integrity using oracle specific data base commands .v. using front end.
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    Hi,
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    Why sould I select Oracle over MS Access? QUESTION POSED ON: 05 JUL 2001
    QUESTION ANSWERED BY: Brian Peasland
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