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 would have to say it's not why people buy Oracle. It's very non-portable/non-standard, and as Adam pointed out has some usage pitfalls as well. I've not personally seen the benefit to it. I don't know how widespread it's usage is, but I can't imagine it's very big. Take a look around this site to see how many questions are asked about it. That may give you some insight.