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		JamesAcorn on May 13, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sorry, Digital Ad Exec, I Probably Don’t Want To W... Just curious.. why didn't anyone run a quick benchmark of both methods?

gregjor on May 13, 2013 [–]

Project politics. We did run benchmarks and Oracle's ORDER BY clearly came out ahead, but the analyst espousing bubble sort was entrenched and dismissed all benchmarks as special cases.

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