How widely used are Oracle objects?

Question

I\'m writing an assignment for a databases class, and we\'re required to migrate our existing relational schema to Oracle objects. This whole debacle has got me wondering, just

Answer 1

I've only heard of it being used one place, and the developers involved were converting to get away from it. I've thought of using it purely in PL/SQL, but as our DBA's won't let us install any Types for fear that we might use them in a table this is unlikely to happen.

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