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Learning PL/SQL is not so difficult. With a little effort and a willingness to expand your programming tool set, PL/SQL skills can be acquired with relative ease. In fact, quickly learning new programming languages is a key skill for all developers. It’s also an interesting challenge and helps make for a more marketable skill set.

My advice to any developer who has a chance to learn PL/SQL is to seize the opportunity. The effort required to learn this interesting and useful language far outweighs the energy required to avoid it in favor of a more complex and potentially brittle mechanism. Your organization and its data users will thank you for creating more resilient solutions, and you’ll thank yourself when your newfound PL/SQL skills turn out to be reusable in other project work.