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

It's not too uncommon to see them play a small role somewhere in your system. For example, if you're doing something with Oracle data cartridge. Some times when you need to do something really weird they are necessary.

It is uncommon to see them used extensively in a system. I've seen two different systems use a lot of objects and it was a disaster both times: difficult to use, very slow, and full of bugs.

"Simple" relational methods that use basic tables, rows, and columns are almost always good enough. Every programmer (and program) can understand these concepts, and they are powerful enough for almost any task. Yet you can spend many years trying to fully understand and optimize these methods. Object relational technology adds a huge amount of complexity on top of that for very little gain.